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:
We were ramping up in the course of 2022. As I said earlier, we had 199 staff at the end of 2022. By the end of 2023, we had 400 odd, which was a doubling of staff.
I would also emphasise to the Deputy that it is not just a question of staffing, there has been an amount of change. Other Deputies asked me if I am satisfied that everything is being done. I am satisfied that we are doing an awful lot. We will continue to do an enormous amount of squeezing of the system to-----