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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: Thank you. I welcome Ms McPhillips. As detailed in the letter of invitation, there will be five minutes for her opening statement. I understand Ms McPhillips wishes to share her time with Ms McCaffrey.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: We will break and resume in ten minutes sharp.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I am sorry, Deputy Munster. I will just be a moment. Am I correct in saying that the case is not before the WRC at the moment and that there are no legal proceedings under way?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I just wanted to clarify that point. The Deputy may continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: Okay, we are going over time. We have members back in now for a second round of questions. I have some questions as well. On whistleblowers generally, under the legislation and the situation regarding that, in the course of an examination or investigation into matters brought forward by a whistleblower, would whistleblowers normally be engaged with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: There have been some fairly in-depth examinations done, that I am aware of, under the aegis of the Department of Justice and the Prison Service, where the whistleblower was not engaged with.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: What is the explanation for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I have a question on the treatment of whistleblowers. Obviously, sometimes the information they provide is good and sometimes it is not. I understand that prison is a very challenging environment and staff are dealing with very challenging situations at times and all of that. However, prisons would have a high level of autonomy and Ms McPhillips outlined that in her briefing notes, which I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I will make this point to Ms McCaffrey as well that because each prison has much autonomy, it is important that if staff come forward with genuine information that is not vexatious or anything like that, that not only do we have the process there for them to whistleblow, but also that the consequences do cause suffering. We cannot have a situation where staff that come forward are bullied,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: We will just move on to Thornton Hall. Who made the decision to buy Thornton Hall in 2005? I know it is before Ms McPhillips's time. However, there will be records of all this. Who made this decision to buy those 150 acres?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: The Minister, correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: What would normally happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: Was the Minister for Justice at that time Michael McDowell?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: There was some money paid for it - €200,000 per acre. I know it is in north County Dublin, but this was good agricultural land and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: -----was making barely €13,000 and €14,000 an acre at that time. Some €200,000 an acre seems extraordinary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: It was a mad time. Even allowing for all of that, good agricultural land was making about €13,000 or €14,000 an acre at the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: There were other uses for that money at the time-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: The State is not an estate agent.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: It appears an excessive sum of money. Here we are 17 years later with €50 million buried in it and nothing to show for it. Is it let in conacre, as we call it in the part of the country I come from? Is it leased out every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I presume there is beef dry stock on it at present.