Irish Prison Service to streamline catering operations

For the first time, Ms McCaffrey will say, voluntary mess committees, which run canteen facilities for prison staff will become subject to a signed service agreement in a bid to increase oversight as to how those committees procure goods. File picture.

The Irish Prison Service is to implement a series of checks and balances to remove inefficiencies in how it caters for its prisoners.

Director general of the IPS Caron McCaffrey is expected to tell the Public Accounts Committee this morning that a new procurement system for the service is to go live early in 2021 to better “segregate” duties in terms of ordering, delivering and paying for food.