Crime Prevention
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-06
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

I urge the Minister of State in particular to advance the work he is beginning on a joint agency response to crime with regard to young offenders up to the age of 24. There is a necessity to target the 5% of this group who become persistent offenders. They are an extremely vulnerable group in many ways but there are persistent offenders who slip through the very successful youth diversion programmes we have that work so very well for so many children.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-06