Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

There is an amount of churn in the system. People get promoted, retire and have life events so we are always running to keep pace. Just because we have 400 today does not mean we will have 400 tomorrow, so we have to keep recruiting in order to maintain the numbers. Our aim is to get to a complement of 480 staff in the IPO during the course of this year.