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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: The Chair is speaking. I am an accountant too and I can run figures as well. We need some certainty about what we are talking about. For a start, prisoners are there 24 hours a day whereas staff are there for eight hours a day.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: One has to divide everything by three-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: It is not frustrating.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: It is speculative.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: I think we are speculating on figures. The Committee of Public Accounts has a duty to deal with real figures. We can all run the figures of how many hours a person works in a year. An average of five officers are required to give 24-hour coverage for 365 days of the year. If one works 40 hours a week for 45 weeks a year, that is 1,800 hours out of 8,760 hours in the year, so five staff...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: We need the witnesses to do a detailed exercise for us. It is up to them how they do it. We want figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: We want something about control procedures, as well as about throughput and costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: When the witnesses are doing that, they will have the transcript from this meeting. They should go back through the transcript in case the Deputy has said something that we have missed and so their response fully encompasses everything asked here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Before we leave I have a few quick questions. I will be brief and succinct. I am sorry; the witnesses are not out of the gap yet. There are a couple of things. On the health and welfare of prisoners, I was talking about prison officers but now I want to concentrate on the prisoner side. How many doctors are on the Prison Service's payroll? A while ago it was said that there were more...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: There are 149. Ms McCaffrey said 100 plus a while ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Ms McCaffrey mentioned people dealing with mental health, whether psychologists or psychiatrists. Are there any such people on the Prison Service's payroll? Will she give us a figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: There are 33 people in the psychology department. Are there any in psychiatric services?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Do they work on a contract basis?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Some have a background in psychiatric nursing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: I have another question I wanted to ask. Somebody touched on it a while ago. It relates to the nurses' salaries. They were prison officers on a prison officer's salary. Now the nurses are on a nurse's salary, which is lower. They used to be prison officers. Will Mr. Culliton explain what happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: It is a lower pay scale.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Mr. Culliton might send us a chart comparing the two because I have heard about the prison nurses starting on a lower salary than they used to start on. He can send us the chart which shows how that works out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: There are 3,000 patients. We accept that they are all fairly vulnerable. They have different vulnerabilities. I am not going soft on the issue but many of them have particular vulnerabilities. There are more than 3,000 patients but only four doctors. That seems very few.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: I am just saying offhand that it does not sound right to have only four doctors for that quantum of patients. There is this idea of sessional work and relying on a locum or a practice to provide services and the Prison Service is using different locum services.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Seán Fleming: Fine. I understand that but I see no reason the same principle applied in respect of nursing staff should not apply for doctors. They are effectively being paid on an hourly rate, or whatever mechanism is involved in the sessional basis. It is like an agency service. The Prison Service has made a good move in respect of the nurses. Is there a senior-----