Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

I am sure they are glued to monitors as I speak. They effectively suggest the introduction of boot camps run by members of the Defence Forces. One Fine Gael representative, whom I know quite well and for whom I have much respect, proposes that deviant people, adults or children, be ghettoised in one part of the city. I hope Fine Gael is simply being facetious because if that is a real policy we are in serious trouble.

This year the Government is to introduce youth justice divisions in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and in the Department of Health and Children. Those Departments run programmes, such as crime diversion programmes, which are hugely important and should not be derided.

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