Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will give a very good example of a woman with whom we worked whose son was coming out of prison, but he was going to have to go back in again. At that point he wanted to move into recovery. He wanted to get into a treatment centre, but, unfortunately, they could not get him in anywhere. She ended up ringing the Joe Duffy show. I have given this example previously. Thankfully, as a result, he got into a treatment centre and is now doing really well. He graduated and is fantastic. He was in and out of prison constantly, but he has not gone back to prison since. Is it possible to have intervention when people are going through the courts and for a judge to give a person a choice of six months in recovery or six months in prison? Would the delegates agree with having such an approach?