Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

From working with the trust's service users, has the issue of intimidation in the community come up in respect of ex-prisoners and ex-addicts? Are they being sucked back in? We have a major problem in Dublin city. We have had 12 gang-related deaths over the past 12 months. Many of them were ex-prisoners or ex-addicts who were told to shoot a person who owed the big gangland boss €3,000 €5,000 or €7,000. We call them gang debt killings. These are totally dysfunctional people doing crazy things and regretting it for the rest of their lives.