Mr. Ben Ryan:

I will pick up on Ms McArdle’s point about the co-ordination of approaches at local level. She mentioned what was happening in the Department of the Taoiseach to try to pull together all of the various strands. We have community safety partnerships and the Department of children has children and young people’s services committees, CYPSCs. There are the Sláintecare healthy communities and a range of other strands. The Department of the Taoiseach is trying to pull them all together and target areas of particular disadvantage where considerable money has already been invested but we have not yet seen the type of change we want. The Senator is familiar with the Cherry Orchard implementation board and was instrumental in the work leading up to it. That is an example of the 12 areas we are trying to identify where a more targeted approach is needed. The Senator is familiar with that model.