Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I love the idea of effective disruptors and will see how that fits on an election poster. I would not mind it as a manifesto.

The issue of youth work and community development is a really good lens through which to look at this Bill. If there is antisocial behaviour on the corner of a street, the short-term response is to lock somebody up, to incarcerate them. The long-term response is to invest in youth work, diversion programmes and community policing programmes. Ultimately, through the real long-term lens, it is about investing in those communities so we do not see the perpetuation of intergenerational poverty. That is a really good way to say that this is where this commissioner could be very effective. If I am right, in the Welsh example, they are looking at the idea of a universal basic income for care-experienced people. The Future Generations Commissioner there was very involved in generating that idea because it was somebody applying a long-term lens and saying that in the short term this might look expensive but in the long term this is the best investment we will ever make in our communities. Looking at this Bill through the lens of what has been brought up is a useful way to contextualised what the possibilities are.