Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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If I can, I will just move back to the prisons issue. Ms McPhillips referred to overtime and taking prisoners into hospital for care, and other such matters. I raised HIV treatment in the health committee. If someone has HIV, as I understand it, the programme takes 12 weeks. In some cases it is available within the prison so the prisoner does not have to be taken into a hospital setting. Have we implemented that in all of our prisons at this stage?