David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I apologise that I will have to leave in a few minutes. There is another meeting on next door dealing with Traveller issues. There are overlaps here as well. People in the Traveller community are also affected by drug use. Professor Michael O'Flaherty, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, is before that committee this morning but I hope to get back.

A number of years ago we did some work on the justice committee on this issue. We went to look at the community courts system in Red Hook and Midtown in New York. The description given by Ms Brennan of the drug court here mirrors what happens there in many ways. Is she familiar with the work there and does she have an opinion on it? Are there learnings we could bring back from there to here with respect to how they operate the community court system and the Centre for Justice Innovation in that part of the world?