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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: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: No, one does not. We did this earlier. I know it is frustrating and it is getting late.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I have the longest journey here.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: At the beginning, we asked how many people are on duty full-time. The numbers were given. We picked a speculative 1,000. We then took a third of the three prisons off that and suggested a figure of 940. Let us go really low and say there are 940 people at a €3 spend per day, below the lowest amount, and multiply that by 365, that is approximately €1.2 million. If we then...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I do not know either. I went as low as €3 and as high as €10. The fact is that mess committees are not regulated by anybody with no oversight, accountancy or audit. There is a suggestion of them cross-subsidising stock from taxpayers' cash for prisoners' food and so on and there is no oversight. I am sorry to have to say this and I appreciate that people are new to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Do the mess committees operate tills?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Are tally rolls for the tills kept?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Does the committee employ external staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Do the prisoners handle the tills?
- 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 either a prisoner or prison officer who operates the till.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Okay, so no external party is employed. We have established that the Irish Prison Service pays the prison officer and the allowance to the prisoner. It does not come from the funds coming into the till. Is there a tally roll on the till? Are they kept? Where are they held? We might then be able to cross-check. I am guessing there is no potential to pay electronically. Can one pay by...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Can the witnesses answer from their knowledge? It is okay to say that they do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: With respect, it is not just for the Chairman. He asked some things and I asked others.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I have asked some specific questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I promise to not take too much longer. I understand that mess committees are registered charities and limited companies. Have they memoranda and articles of association? Are there procedures? Where does all the money go? Are they all cash payments? Do those cash payments tally with a tally roll from a till? Are all transactions put through the till? Is all the money that comes in...
- 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 interested in ensuring that proper procedures are in place in governance, handling cash and handling the State's money. Unfortunately, there appears to be a free-for-all with mess committees that puts Templemore in the ha'penny place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: As well as the witnesses doing that as fully as they possibly can-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: -----where they can not, they should tell us why cannot.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: If there are industrial relations reasons for that, let us know. Shelton Abbey has a public café. A celebrity chef was there to open it. Is that run in a similar way or through the accounts of Shelton Abbey? I think it is run by the prisoners.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Ms McCaffrey will give us a breakdown of that too and let us know whether it is in the Prison Service's box or not.