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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: I will have to accept that answer. In providing catering at outside events, a matter to which Deputy Kelly, are the witnesses aware if any prison catered for or provided food at a private function such as an anniversary, birthday, First Holy Communion, Confirmation or retirement event?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Even if it were for a staff member.
- 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 was the governor and celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary, it would not be an appropriate use.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Who within the Irish Prison Service is responsible for fixed assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: It is great to see somebody taking responsibility. Under the heading of fixed assets, there is a policy on fleet management.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Good. Our research indicates that there are some vehicles missing. Is Mr. Caldbeck aware of any missing vehicle?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I ask him specifically to investigate a Hyundai i40 allocated to the Midlands Prison to discover, in particular, where it is and who has it. I also ask him to investigate a van at Mountjoy Prison and a tractor at Shelton Abbey that my research indicates may not be accounted for. I appreciate that he cannot do so here today. Obviously, there are multiple vehicles in the fleet and we are all...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Perhaps for the governor.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I want to get a breakdown showing where all of the vehicles are, without the individuals' names, such that it can be said, "The governor has access to this vehicle," or, "Officer Y has this one." There is a suggestion that while the witnesses might be told that everything is in order, it is not.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Perhaps the fleet manager has asked some questions too, not that I know who he or she is. I ask that the matter be checked.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I think it was the Midlands Prison, but it is missing, or so that is what has been said by the campfire. There was also a van at Mountjoy Prison and a tractor at Shelton Abbey. There is a suggestion lawn mowers are unaccounted for. I presume Irish Prison Service lawn mowers are of industrial scale. Is Mr. Caldbeck based in Longford or Dublin?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Perhaps they have been accounted for, but there is a suggestion they have not. Accounting is needed in that regard. On a separate issue, all of the nurses in prisons are agency nurses. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: They are permanent employees of the Irish Prison Service and there are so many in each prison, with one or two always on duty.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: How many agency nurses are employed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Up to 2018 there would have been relatively little recruitment. Is the Irish Prison Service bound by the same wage agreements with €31,000 at entry level?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Is it not correct that the agency workers would not have been?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: The outcome of that would be that if an incident took place, the agency nurse would not have been able to put a prisoner on report. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Would Mr. Culliton be aware of a sexual harassment that arose with an agency nurse who was reluctant to pursue it because they could not put a prisoner on report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: It was suggested that if they did, they might fear that the agency would not make them available to the Irish Prison Service again.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: On the basis that we clearly we did use them - Mr. Culliton is linking them to the crisis nationally on agency staff - I suggest that he would make contact with whatever agencies the Irish Prison Service used in recent years and ask if there were incidents. Obviously I am sure he would like to see that dealt with if it had occurred.