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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Is it now going to be available in every one of the prisons?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I will move on to prison accommodation.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Can I just ask-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: There is now great pressure on accommodation. We also have to accept that the population of the country has increased by 40% and that there will therefore be more demand. Is there a programme within the Prison Service to develop additional facilities because of this pressure?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What kind of time period are we talking about for the delivery of those projects?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are they still in the accommodation?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We have talked about the cost of overtime. Is Ms McCaffrey satisfied that we have sufficient processes in place in our prisons to provide healthcare for prisoners whereby we could cut costs by having a service within the prison rather than people having to be transferred to a hospital setting?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: We have been talking about the whole Prison Service, the fact that we have increasing numbers in prison and the process when people are discharged from prison. Have we enough connection between the various support agencies once a person is discharged from prison? We are talking about costs and this committee is dealing with public accounts and the cost to the State. Could we be doing a far...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Is the Probation Service getting enough support to be able to give help because there is huge demand on its services as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: If we take the number who are in prison at the moment, what percentage are in there for the second or third time? What is the total number currently in prison?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Of that 4,800, what percentage-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Have we done an analysis of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Are we talking about 50% or 60%?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does that not prove the point that the prison system is not working, or while it is working in that the people are in custody, it is not working with regard to trying to make sure there is not a cost to the taxpayer into the future?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: It is the connectivity that is lacking.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: What is the number of people aged under 18 in prison?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The Prison Service does not have any-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Obviously, there are people who will have served time in Oberstown and then end up in the prison system. There is a need for connectivity. The smaller the number of people from Oberstown who end up coming back into the prison system, the better.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Does Ms McCaffrey accept that between Oberstown, which comes under a different Department, and other Departments, there needs to be more joined-up thinking about how to work with people who are discharged from prison?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: 31. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by her Department in supporting sports clubs and organisations in Cork in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6818/24]