Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Aggressive Begging from a Public Order Perspective: Discussion
10:00 am
Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Perhaps that is something the committee can take up, Chairman.
I wish to raise the question of the congregation of people in the centre of the city because that is where the majority of the addiction-treatment centres are located. That is a criticism of the fact that many of these centres should be out in the suburbs where people could get the services they require in their communities rather than having to come to the centre of the city to congregate. Often they are begging in order to get their bus fare home. Do the witnesses have a view on that?