Anne Ferris (Wicklow, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses here today. The presentation and the document they sent makes for interesting reading. I did not realise that the Churchfield Community Trust provided such a tremendous service. I thank the Chairman for inviting them along today. He must have been impressed when he visited them.

I am looking for information on the success rate of their programmes following engagement with offenders, for example, the percentage who have entered permanent stable employment after completing the programmes, the percentage who have come through the programmes successfully, the percentage who have required further programmes because at the conclusion of a programme the staff might have felt the person required to be on a further programme, and the percentage who have re-offended after completion of the programme. I am not sure whether they would have any idea of those figures.