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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: I would say the doctor who comes in is a locum who is quickly signing certs every time. I get that feeling from the volume of people he or she might have to see in one day. I want to make sure there is good service there. Is education all done through the education and training boards, ETBs?

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 funded by them and they provide the staff. The Prison Service probably has some service level agreement. How does it work for each location with its own ETB?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: That funding is smallish.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I was concerned, as Deputy O'Brien mentioned, at the level of engagement by prisoners with the education and training service. Ms McCaffrey mentioned something about staffing restrictions. I presume those are the Prison Service's staffing restrictions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Could it happen that an ETB teacher arrives on a Monday to do his or her usual class and, because of the prison staffing requirements, that teacher has to sit there and twiddle his or her thumbs and the prisoners are left in the prison?

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 will appreciate, at this hour of the evening, that I am going as quickly as I can. Do prisoners of basic, standard or enhanced status all have equal access to education or does it depend on where they are? How equal is access to education throughout the Prison Service and for the three categories of prisoners? Does a prisoner with enhanced status get greater access?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: It does not impact on education. That is fine. Ms McCaffrey mentioned sick leave in her opening statement. Is she able to send us the details on sick leave? I think the witnesses mentioned about 15 days. Will the witnesses send that to us on a location by location basis?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: What way can it be done? Can that be sent on in writing because the witnesses might not have it in front of them there? Here is an awkward question. Ms McCaffrey mentioned people who are wrongfully detained. How many prisoners are released straight into homelessness the minute they walk out? Ms McCaffrey's predecessor mentioned at this committee that some prisoners have passed their...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Talk to me about those prisoners. Somebody must know where they are going to spend their first night.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: So prisoners go from prison to a homeless hostel?

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 addressing this to the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality. There is a big issue here for the repeat offending rate.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: One could not pick a worse case scenario than somebody walking out of a prison and into a homeless hostel that night. Many of these cases will end up back with the justice system very quickly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Department needs to take a holistic approach here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: How many releases are there from prison in the course of the year? Are there 6,000 or 7,000?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: People who have had recourse to visit someone in prison will know that the visitor centres are very good and homely places but the community employment and Tús workers are not employed by the Prison Service.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: They are the first point of contact that people might have with the Prison Service.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have covered a lot of ground today, and at this stage I thank everyone from the Department of Justice and Equality, the Prison Service and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the latter of which got off lightly today. I hope the representatives from that Department took some notes. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and all the staff. There is quite a bit of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: The meeting is adjourned until next Tuesday, when we will meet in private session at 10.30 a.m. The next public meeting is on Thursday, 24 January, when we will meet with the Department of Education and Skills, the Higher Education Authority, the Waterford Institute of Technology, the University of Limerick and the Institute of Technology Sligo to discuss Special Report 103 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: 264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided for flood relief works at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54054/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (15 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: 397. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in each of the past five years for wards of courts; the number approved by the courts; the number of these cases contested by persons opposing the wardship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54095/18]