A community initiative in Blanchardstown, organised in association with the probation and welfare service, caters for the immediate and long-term needs of ex-prisoners between the ages of 16 and 21. It concentrates on helping them to return to the community. Some 87% of such people in the Blanchardstown area are addicted to drugs and, worryingly, 27% of them are homeless. Some local initiatives under the probation and welfare service provide homes for the people to whom I refer and I believe further suggestions for such programmes are on the Minister's desk. Such services set young people goals to meet if they are to change their lives, for example, by placing them on training programmes. Many of the programmes are undertaken by ex-prisoners over a one year period while they are living in a residential community.