Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Throughout this city and country, teenage boys are frequently being subjected to gratuitous criminal assaults. Sometimes those criminal assaults are by other teenage boys. These issues do not receive any recognition in newspapers or the national media, but the events have a very significant and negative impact on young teenage boys. Are there measures Deputy Charles Flanagan, as Minister for Justice and Equality, can take to prevent these criminal assaults which have such a negative impact on the young person, particularly in mind of the extra difficulty that, in most circumstances, the assailant is also a teenage boy.

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