Mal O'Hara (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will make a couple of comments. I thank the witnesses very much for the presentation. I have just come from a meeting of the Joint Committee on Drugs Use. I have a bad clash of meetings on Thursday mornings. Last week, I attended meetings of this committee and the committee on drugs use and heard about addiction, poverty, housing, inequality, systemic racism and discrimination and how those issues negatively impact some people and lead to worse outcomes.

There is an opportunity here. We have an election coming and we would like to see clear manifesto requests. Here is an opportunity, and I am hearing a clarion call in this regard. In the report, ITAJ referred to some elements of good practice but that they are not systemically embedded. Could we get a flavour of some of those? What mechanism could be employed to embed those elements into systemic practice across the Judiciary?