Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

I strongly believe that there is a correlation between juvenile delinquency and educational disadvantage, particularly in the area of educational literacy. There has been a failure to recognise literacy difficulties in this country. If and when they are identified, there is not the ability or the knowledge out there to address them. Will the Minister try to seek out some data to establish the correlation between literacy difficulties and juvenile delinquency? It exists and I know that one of the Minister's predecessors had intended getting that information, but I am not sure if he came up with it.

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