Ms Kayleigh Canning:

I would echo the points just made by the Probation Service. There has been significant investment in restorative practices for the Garda youth diversion project, GYDP, network, funded through the Department of Justice. The best practice development team, my team, has worked with Ulster University to develop a bespoke restorative practices model that is being implemented across the Garda youth diversion project network. It is at the early stages of implementation but the investment is there. It will focus on some of the formal processes but really embed an informal restorative ethos across the GYDP network. As the Probation Service said, it is about instilling those restorative values in the everyday practices of the Garda youth diversion project from the informal up to the formal processes.