Ms Aoife Bairéad:

Our task force recently commissioned research to develop a strategy on public safety because of all the types of violence we see in our communities. The biggest issues coming up in the task force for young people were domestic violence and gang- and drug-related crime. That research is available and I can certainly send it to the committee if it is interested. It has very clear recommendations on how we might approach this. It shows that, as the Donore team representatives said, people who have lived that life and faced and overcome those challenges are probably best placed to be able to connect with young people and others in these situations by making them feel understood and getting the message across. We are going down a number of routes seeking funding to be able to move the pilot projects forward, in the hope that if they work for us, they will be adaptable to work elsewhere as well.