Mr. John Farrelly:

The high level task force was mentioned. I think it is led by former Minister of State, Kathleen Lynch. It comprises the Garda, the Prison Service, civil servants from the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and a few other people. We have raised these areas with the members of the task force. They are looking at different areas so they can put actions in place. One of those was the diversion programme, it must be a year ago now. The idea was that they were going to pilot that in Limerick to see if we could roll it out in the rest of the country. Very often it is a matter of the interactions between different State agencies. Is the Department of Health or the Department of Justice funding it? It was the first one I got from the Garda and the leadership in Limerick and they were really determined to put it in place. It sounds like a good idea. That alone happening would set a trend.