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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 am just making the point that nothing I have heard today-----

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: It appears to us that there is a clear issue in the Irish Prison Service around the lack of outside scrutiny. The problem seems to be that there is no independent monitoring of the Irish Prison Service. I recommend that we write to the Minister for Justice and ask her to request that an investigation be carried out by the Inspector of Prisons into all of the issues flagged up here and 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: We can finesse the details but I would like the committee's support to write to the Minister for Justice and ask her to request an investigation.

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 these concerns came up through protected disclosures, in the main.

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 will probably take less than that. I want to come back to the suggestion I made earlier to the committee. I am not confident that the Prison Service has addressed the issues raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General in a timely manner. There are the issues surrounding the staff mess. There does not seem to be adequate record keeping. There is the issue of the funds that should be...

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: Enough concerns have been raised here that a report would not do any harm. I think it would also send out a message that where there are these irregularities going on for quite some time, and despite the fact that the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, through the Committee of Public Accounts, has raised them, it has taken this length of time for some to be acted on. There are others...

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: We can leave it up to the Minister to appoint whomever she deems fit if that is the case and if she does not feel the Inspector of Prisons is suitable.

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: We might need a different investigator.

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: We have a quorum.

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.

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 already flagged the issues, including irregularities regarding staff, the lack of adequate record-keeping and funds that are not spent for the intended purposes. I refer to all the irregularities and issues raised in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: The briefing notes the number of people in direct provision accommodation. Is it correct that the annual cost per individual works out at approximately €15,000?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: Does Ms McPhillips have any idea of the cost per person per year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: I want to find out how much of that figure was spent on accommodation, how much was spent on catering and where the remainder goes. Could we get those figures first?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: When it comes to tenders, is there an amount the Department pays per person in each tender?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: Could we get an example of those to have a rough idea?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: Vice Chairman, I would have hoped we would have had access to those figures.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: Is that figure inclusive of accommodation and catering needs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: In light of the widely reported deficiencies in direct provision, does the Department engage with the management of each centre? Given the reports of drastic failings in some direct provision centres, how does it gauge whether standards are met? What supervision is in place in terms of public money being spent? How does the Department know that standards are kept up? What is its procedure...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Imelda Munster: What procedures follow on from an inspection if a centre is not up to standard? What happens if that is the case? What does the Department implement? Are penalties imposed, for example?