Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and apologise for having to leave earlier but a constituent had an emergency situation with which I had to deal that was not entirely unrelated to the sort of thing about which we are talking here. I am very conscious of the fact that most people who end in Oberstown probably come from a particular background. I could nearly name the estates in my constituency from which they are likely to come and that probably true of other parts of the country. Do the witnesses think any of the interventions being made, such as DEIS, are likely to make any difference in the long run in terms of getting young people to grow up so that they are not confronted with the likes of Oberstown? To go back to Deputy Naughten's question, would the witnesses agree that many of the problems stem from the fact that some of the people who get into trouble with the law do not have good family situations? How can we best try to tackle that problem in the modern world?