Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail)

Following on from what Deputy Brabazon said, I have a question on the cost. It costs roughly €100,000 a year to incarcerate somebody. Perhaps we can use the service Ms O'Reilly describes, this all-round holistic service, as a model. This is done in all the administrative work that she has to send back to qualify for the funding. While I do not expect her to know off the top of her head, what is the cost per client? It would be helpful to get that. I think we know how it happened that we have all the services primarily clustered in the capital and other big urban centres but there are needs throughout the country. Outreach can work but we need to try to cost that. The committee needs to be able to make a strong argument. If we want to have a truly health-led approach, it will require redeployment and reallocation of resources. To do that it would be helpful for the committee to be able to quantify it, even in ballpark figures. I might follow up with Ms O'Reilly on that.