Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As educators, would the witnesses like that to move from an anecdotal basis to empirical evidence? There are many causal factors behind someone ending up in the penal system, such as drug addiction, which was mentioned a moment ago, family situations and a whole number of factors that we cannot quantify because they are individual factors. Another reason is one's unmet needs as one was growing up. Are the teachers pushing for the Government or for the Irish Prison Service to fund a study that would quantify this?