Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

We just need to communicate that more across different sectors. Drug possession is in the same category as murder, rape and sexual assault so when it comes back on the Garda vetting, sometimes people just look at the category it is captured in. Having been in possession of €20 worth of cannabis in the 1990s could all of a sudden prohibit someone from a job later in life because it is caught in a category that it just should not be in.

On the second point, I am not great at seeing beyond Dublin, or even Tallaght. That is probably obvious, although I am not as bad as Deputy Murnane O'Connor with Carlow. This is more of a question from my own insight into potential underfunding of projects in the North. I have become aware, through some of my drugs work specifically, that projects up North are suffering because of the removal from the EU. There is lots of EU funding that has been taken away across many different projects, whether women's projects or restorative justice, practice projects and so on. Is the youth sector up North falling to that as well? Is it losing portions of funding that have not been reinstated anywhere else because it is EU funding?