Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am looking at the note we were given and trying to match it up to the figures. Under the heading of social inclusion, there is substance misuse, opioid substitution and homelessness. I might be missing it but there is no detailed breakdown of the services. It is all very well to say social exclusion is a problem. We could agree on that eight days a week. The issue is knowing exactly and specifically what services will be provided. What are the targets and how will they be measured? How will we know, if we are all sitting here this time next year looking at each other, if it worked or not? How will we measure whether it was successful?

With regard to the point made by Deputy Durkan, there was a fantastic project in Ballymun known as Young Ballymun which was doing exactly what the Minister is talking about and regrettably the funding for it was cut. Perhaps the Minister will raise that at his next parliamentary party meeting.