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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: May I ask one more question? Please stop me if I am running over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: I am only warming up. In the report, there was mention of an independent evaluation in 2003, 2008 and 2010. I am asking this question because sections of society or politics will take the stuff we are talking about today with a grain of salt and will not necessarily agree with it. They will just take the approach of locking them up and throwing away the key. Who conducted this independent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: I was glad to hear Ms O'Brien say the trust used the Dormant Accounts Fund. That is the kind of funding that is very valuable for these projects. On working with disadvantaged communities, in the 1980s during the heroin epidemic on the north side of Dublin, teachers, gardaí, social workers or juvenile liaison officers did not come into certain communities and demand or get respect....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: From working with the trust's service users, has the issue of intimidation in the community come up in respect of ex-prisoners and ex-addicts? Are they being sucked back in? We have a major problem in Dublin city. We have had 12 gang-related deaths over the past 12 months. Many of them were ex-prisoners or ex-addicts who were told to shoot a person who owed the big gangland boss...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Has Churchfield Community Trust centre experienced intimidation of some of its service users?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: From 2002 up to 2015?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Some of the gangs in Dublin do not do debt forgiveness. It could be for a small amount of money.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: One will not be even be able to buy a stamp soon.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Leave Bertie out of it.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: The Government is not able to count regarding Irish Water.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: We are representatives to Dáil Éireann.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: What about the lone parents?

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Deputy Stagg is having a go.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: There are more than 1,100 post offices.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: One cannot even buy a stamp these days.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: Peter could not take it any more. Even Peter walked out.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of the Ombudsman Investigations (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: 263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 23 June 2015, the options that are open to a person who is still dissatisfied with the way the Ombudsman investigated that person's complaints and with the in-house complaints process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30389/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Cases (16 Jul 2015)

Finian McGrath: 264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 12 June 2014, the outcome of the application for legal cost made by the Commission for Public Service Appointments; if he will detail the amount the proceeding has cost to date; his views on whether an alternative dispute resolution mechanism may have been more cost effective in dealing with...