asked the Minister for Justice what precautions are taken to ensure that recruits to the prison service are temperamentally suited to this kind of employment.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Prison Service Officers.
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The recruitment of established prison officers is made through the medium of the Civil Service Commission. Officers are appointed on probation for a period of two years, and while on probation are under the continual scrutiny of their superiors and assigned to a variety of duties to test their suitability. No officer is retained permanently unless his superiors are satisfied that he is temperamentally suited to the prisons service.