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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) Marc MacSharry: Surely GSOC would let Ms McCaffrey know because it would want to question people or it would be asking questions?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Okay, we will leave that one there. Did the Prison Service hire a private company to install cameras? While this was touched on earlier and I may not have been paying attention properly, I do not believe it was teased out. This is independent of the normal camera services that the service obviously has for security and so on but were cameras installed to watch staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Yes, but rather than answer that question could the witnesses answer my question? They are clearly different questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Surveillance could mean someone following me down the street or it could mean listening to phone calls. It could mean many things so I am interested in finding out if cameras were installed. That is a capital expenditure and I am sure that the Department or the Prison Service would know about it. I am taking a mental note that the Secretary General is answering a lot of the questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: No-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Let us cut to the chase here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Okay, we are agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: No,-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: -----I did not mention that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I might say that was a superior kick for touch. If we are stuck for a number ten and Jonathan Sexton gets injured we will be calling Mr. O'Driscoll.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I would say so, certainly as a tactician anyway. I ask Ms McCaffrey if any cameras were installed in prisons to watch staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: If I may, to the best of my reckoning Mr. O'Driscoll is not the director general of the Irish Prison Service. In fact he-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: -----could not possibly have the level of expertise on the day-to-day operations-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: -----as the people accompanying him because he was in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine at the time. It is a pretty clear question; did we install cameras to watch staff, yes or no? In the interests of the efforts of the good Inspector of Prisons, who I know is not overrun with resources and staff, Ms McCaffrey could help her by answering the question for us. Did we...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: That means that there is none.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: So if there were cameras up and running to surveil people before that, would they be exempt from that new policy?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Has it been kept there just in case there is a repetition of the historical case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Okay, it is gone.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I am not talking about any protected disclosure or court case but there is clearly a lot of staff in the Irish Prison Service and there are 11 of us who do research from time to time as I said earlier on so we can come up with our own information and there is certainly anecdotal evidence that a private company was retained to put in private cameras for surveillance purposes. Mr. O'Driscoll...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Who is more senior?