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Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: They may be published but they are not on the Irish Prison Service website. The two organisations might revert on that. I thank the witnesses for that. Figures were given for the number of prisoners currently in custody, which is 3,971, and it was also mentioned that there were 8,939 committals. How many prisoners are on remand versus committed by the courts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Basically, on those figures, what is the number of prisoners who are typically in a cell?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the witness for the figures. How many cells, in percentage terms, are overcrowded?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: It would not be classified as overcrowded.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Are the three-person cells overcrowded according to international standards?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for his report. Chapter 7.11 relates to catering, indicating €5.66 as the average cost of a meal in 2009. Depending on age and gender, I presume, there are considerations of the volume of food needed. It specifically states that in the Portlaoise prisons, some prisoners have extra menu options available by long-standing arrangement,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Would the mess committee cover the E block in Portlaoise?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Okay. Is it purely because these prisoners are accommodated in the E block and the reason they are being detained that these prisoners get extra options?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: In other prisons, including Mountjoy, are there any additional options for prisoners? What I am trying to decipher is whether a prisoner is better off being accommodated in some prisons? Ideally, a person would not need to be accommodated in any prison but would a prisoner be better off in terms of catering facilities in some prisons? Are some prisoners treated better than others?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I get that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: What about the menu?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Okay. Perhaps the Irish Prison Service will update us on that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Could the relevant authority, maybe the Irish Prison Service, revert to me with the method by which the prisoner welfare accounts are distributed. I understand there was a reference to the governor. The witnesses might revert to us on that, the sums of money involved and the number of complaints received. I will examine again the information on prison committees. I am aware that 2014 was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: Hardship payments, yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms McCaffrey.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schemes, grants and supports in place in his Department for car rental firms, in particular for their extensive fleets of cars that have not been utilised during the pandemic; and if further supports are under consideration for such companies. [43014/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the anomaly with applications for the over-70s driver licence given that a five-year licence can be accessed by post but a ten-year licence requires the applicant to attend in person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43015/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (15 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA to arrange a limited Nitelink service over the Christmas 2020 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43020/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Dec 2020)

Cormac Devlin: 201. To ask the Minister for Finance the schemes, grants and supports in place in his Department for car rental firms; and if there are further measures under consideration for such companies. [43008/20]