Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I will be brief. The next phase is the youth services phase. We need to be conscious of the importance of it also. We need to ensure the our young people are positively influenced and that they are not hanging around corners with nothing to do. I compliment the witnesses on the work they are doing in this regard already. We need to be introducing new programmes annually to ensure that the people for whom these services are provided are conscious and aware of them.