Mr. Andy O'Hara:

In 2007, a book called Young People in Contemporary Ireland was published by Kevin Lawlor, Áine De Róiste and Maurice Devlin, which stated one very important thing, which was that young people want three things, namely, money, status and power. How a person acquires that in one area of Dublin or Limerick vastly differs. So we, as a society, need to go back to basics and ask why do we have a never-ending supply of young people who are willing to take the hardest of drugs and why do we have a never-ending supply of young people willing to sell drugs for economic opportunity. We now see an over-representation. It is to do with the housing crisis and a lack of opportunities.