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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I thought that it was unusual for an allegation to be included in the report, even if it was referencing something else. That is my observation on it. The Accounting Officer is Mr. Waters. Can we go back to the first point I put to the Comptroller and Auditor General on the estimated saving of €31 million against the actual cash saving of €8 million? In the years...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I understand all that but I have asked a direct question about FEMPI, so can that be answered first, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: From 2009 to 2014, what were the total FEMPI savings?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Some €11 million came from FEMPI.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: That is not something the Department can claim credit for. I am going back to the expectation that we would achieve a saving of €31 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: What we are looking at are overall net figures and the total cost to the State. What I am pointing out is that many of the savings which were made on payroll were actually made by FEMPI cuts and not by any efficiencies or changes in work practices or overtime.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I am not disputing that there were no clear savings because of those changes. What I am saying is that, in terms of the overall savings achieved, much of that was achieved as a result of FEMPI cuts, which had nothing to do with the Department. They were simply cuts that were introduced unilaterally. There were significant savings. Was it €13 million or €16 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: They were cash savings of €13 million. It is important to note that this had nothing to do with anything that was done-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I have not disputed that at all. I am simply pointing out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: If I can return to the point regarding prison infrastructure on page 27, I would make the point again that there was a correlation made between construction projects, renovations and so on and a reduction in staffing requirements. Did the Department or the Irish Prison Service have an eye on achieving a reduction in staffing requirements in the context of any capital spend from 2005 onwards?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I asked for the total. I am looking for two pieces of information. One is the total capital spend from 2005 to 2014.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: What was the reduction in staffing that resulted from that capital investment in overall terms? I appreciate the examples given but we need the overall figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Is that the overall figure? Has any analysis been done on the direct correlation between the capital investment and a reduction in staffing requirements?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: That was in the SORT report, which makes it very clear that this was something that should have been achieved. Is that information available?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Can a commitment be given to undertake that analysis and provide this committee with those figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Yes. That is it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I return to the point I raised with the Comptroller and Auditor General about the allegation that was made about prison officers playing the system and overtime and so on. I would also like to deal with the issue of sick leave, which is important. What impact does the physical environment of the job of prison officers, the conditions under which they work and stress have on sick leave?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: I accept that. I refer Mr. Donnellan to chapter 2.33 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report in which sick leave in individual prisons is detailed. Would it be fair to say that sick leave is highest in the more difficult institutions?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: Would that be a fair assessment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service (2 Feb 2017) David Cullinane: What policies are in place to, perhaps, help prison officers better manage the difficult working environments in which they operate?