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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)

Imelda Munster: I just want to know if any member has been-----

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)

Imelda Munster: Okay. That was in 2019.

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)

Imelda Munster: If we go back to 2018, has any member of the IPS been disciplined as a result of a protected disclosure?

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)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Culliton is not aware of any member being disciplined as a result of a protected disclosure-----

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)

Imelda Munster: That would stand out, I imagine. If there was a protected disclosure and then disciplinary measures were taken against a member, that would be to the fore.

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)

Imelda Munster: Okay, the witnesses can check that but we will presume for now that there are none, until we are corrected. Otherwise-----

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)

Imelda Munster: One would imagine that it would be something-----

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)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but we are here today to discuss-----

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)

Imelda Munster: Yes, but I said "since" 2018, which obviously includes 2019. It was reported in the media that the IPS directed legal firms to cease all investigations on the basis of Covid-19. Have those investigations resumed?

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)

Imelda Munster: When did they resume?

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)

Imelda Munster: No, sorry, I just want to know when the investigations resumed.

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)

Imelda Munster: When did the other types of investigations resume?

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)

Imelda Munster: So they resumed earlier in the year.

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)

Imelda Munster: I refer to the issue of staff mess. The Committee of Public Accounts made a recommendation at the beginning of 2019 on this but again it appears from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report that the Government's advice to the mess committees does not constitute a formal agreement. It does not, for example, set out that the Prison Service can get assurance that none of the food used in...

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)

Imelda Munster: I have read the recommendations but I am going on what the Comptroller and Auditor General said and on the fact the substantive issues raised in this committee have not been addressed. I have what appears to be an invoice here for an order with specific instructions. It is for food that would have been charged to the prison itself. The instructions on it are to leave the invoiced food at...

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)

Imelda Munster: There are specific instructions on this invoice to leave at gate at canteen. How do we know this is not happening at the moment?

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)

Imelda Munster: How do we ensure that happens?

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)

Imelda Munster: Okay, thanks. It would not instil confidence. I will move on. On the prisoners' shop, more concerns are raised in the Comptroller and Auditor General report. It seems we are going back and forth with the Irish Prison Service and it is not taking being taken seriously. There are serious questions outstanding. The Comptroller and Auditor General found examples where the prisoner assist...

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)

Imelda Munster: Will the witnesses give us examples?

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)

Imelda Munster: Recommendations were made by this committee in January 2019 and we are still flagging up glaring issues that have not been addressed. That is the problem. It does not instil confidence and nothing I have heard today instils confidence.