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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: Would it be fair to say that if contraband is not found in a prison, its governor must run a tight ship.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Does it not stand to reason, though, that if I am the governor of a prison in which 40 mobile phones are found on three landings or whatever, Ms McCaffrey will be lifting the phone, asking, "What are you doing at the gates? Are you not going through the normal procedures that you are not detecting this stuff coming in?" It would reflect badly, would it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Is there not a culture of governors not wanting too much found and, as a result, junior prison officers or people lower down the trough feeling a pressure not to find too much stuff because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: -----they will look bad.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Why is this small number of people coming forward then? Do all who make protected disclosures have an axe to grind? Are they trying to get at someone above them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I agree, and it is not really Ms McCaffrey's tenure I am talking about; it is the past. I have no doubt but that she will do all these things, but we are talking about the heretofore. I am not holding her responsible but I am asking her to look at this. Would it be the case that governors of prisons would permit mobile phones for certain prisoners on a particular landing in order to feed...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I agree with that. However, in the case of prisoner A, who might be a guest of the State for a considerable period and who wants to have as easy a run as possible, and prison authorities that could do with a bit of intelligence as to what is happening on the landing, can Ms McCaffrey state categorically that said prisoner would be allowed a mobile phone and could feed back to the authorities...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: No. If this happens to be coincidental with a case before the High Court-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: -----that is certainly not my intention.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I assure Mr. O'Driscoll that the source we had here in private session did not bring that matter up with me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Believe it or not, my own independent research actually threw up some of these matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Can Mr. O'Driscoll answer the question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Can Mr. O'Driscoll answer the question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Clearly, there is a legislative provision to ban mobile phones.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: What I am asking is, is there a policy, even on an ad hocor casual basis, to allow governors to allow prisoner A to maintain a mobile phone in order to inform on other prisoners in the interest of good intelligence and maintaining order on the landing?
- 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 a yes or a no.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Mr. O'Driscoll's first answer was "Sorry, that is before the courts. I cannot tell you."
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: He is now moving the goalposts and telling me I am getting into security issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Honest to God, guys.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Mr. O'Driscoll has too much experience from being Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. He is talking down the clock and not answering the question.