Dr. Ciarán McCullagh:

To return to the issue of restorative justice and the commitment there is to it and the fact that everyone is in favour of it, I understand the Nenagh project is the longest running restorative justice project in Ireland. It has been running from 1998 and it is still called a pilot project. When do they learn how to fly? When will these mainstreamed? If one thinks about the range of interventions at community level, they are always pilot projects. They do not seem to move on to the next stage whatever that is but they do not get to be mainstreamed. Restorative justice programmes, to some extent, may be in that grey area.