Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hope there will be a report as a result of this and that the committee's work can inform this as best it can. One of the themes that emerged from the other questions is the fact that so much of what the Garda and the PSNI have to do would not be considered core traditional policing work, that of being the emergency service of last resort. The following are my words and not those of the witnesses, but it seems to me that I am picking up a certain level of frustration with some of the other agencies and the fact they could perhaps be doing more, and certainly that there are gaps outside of policing that need to be rectified. I am curious as to what more needs to be done outside of policing. Are there services that need to provide more of a 24 hour service? I am thinking in particular of the social services and Tusla. Do we need to consider a more 24-7 model for social services of that kind?

I believe there is a model in Assistant Chief Constable Todd's area entitled "concern hubs" or "support hubs", which are related to cross-agency work. Will he give us an outline of that?