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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: The trust is dealing with many disadvantaged young men. The issue of early school leaving came up in respect of getting involved in drug culture. My big concern is that sometimes we get at these young men too late. Do the witnesses see the need for further intervention services before they end up with the trust or before they end up in prison? Years ago, we used to say that if we had not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Role and Purpose of Churchfield Community Trust: Discussion (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: I apologise for hogging the speaking time. Another group of children from those families that are often forgotten about are those who do not play football, soccer, Gaelic football or hurling. They are the other 15%, as we used to call them, who are not into that kind of stuff. They are left hanging around disadvantaged areas or blocks of flats where they are totally exposed. My point is...
- 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 (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: Deputy Wallace has a responsibility to raise it in this House.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: He is quite entitled to raise these matters.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: There is enough there for a commission of investigation.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: Where is fiscal competency now?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: There is something in the water.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: The only people who can be trusted are the Independents.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: Fix the leaks.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Finian McGrath: That is not true. That is a distortion.