Mr. Paul Delaney:

Through the good offices of the committee Chairman, Deputy Stanton, we visited Cork a couple of months ago and met a group representing the local police fora, the drugs task force and others, the probation service and the Garda Síochána. They are interested in replicating the system on a pilot basis. We are in discussions with the group at the moment and we hope to be able to support it to develop a pilot project in the new year. Our system has been piloted in a project in Ballyfermot. It is much smaller than the Cornmarket Project but has the same type of clients as its primary group. These include medium to high risk offenders who are also, in the main, substance misusers. We have spent the past few years refining the system, developing it, testing it and making sure it delivers in respect of the outcomes. We are at the stage where we would like to be of assistance in rolling it out further.