Mr. Deaglán Ó Briain:

No. The mentoring programmes are run by individual Garda youth diversion projects, so it is part of the funding package that they get. We pay on a quarterly basis. We negotiate an annual business plan and an annual budget, and we keep that under review. Projects do not get funding if they cannot spend it. Conversely, if there is a need, and projects can demonstrate there is an increasing caseload or opportunities, they can get extra money.

From our point of view, it is part of the work of the Garda youth diversion projects. We have partnered with a number of projects to provide mentoring initiatives. We will be looking at those and reviewing where we go, starting from 2019, in terms of the type of work that is undertaken by the Garda youth diversion projects. Mentoring is potentially really important in combatting recidivism and-----