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I'm saying that to you, that's true.
But Ciarán, can I just actually make another point on what Vivian just said there and she made very valid points
about how the young kids and they're attacking each other.
But the parents, the parents actually need to go on.
Some of them, like around, say, Ballymun, for example, the way they speak to their children, they speak to them like they're the dirt on their shoes, screaming and roaring at them in shop.
They don't seem to be able to communicate with their children or how to parent properly.
I don't think parents go on any courses before they have kids
and how you actually bring up a child properly.
Like, how is that child going to feel if it's been screamed and roared at, you know, when it's a child, when they grow up?
Even things like that, that they could do.
When you're screaming at a child in a shop, going, get up off the ground, roaring at them, screaming at them like you've lifted the dirt on their ground.
In general, I think every parent should go on that course.
Well, I have been listening, Ciarán, to what has been said and I have been in education for over 40 years and I have dealt with children from Ballymun and their parents and still am and they haven't high absentee rates.
Now, they come to school, their parents are doing their best but I would say education, education, education and it starts
And DASH schools would need smaller classes, more teachers, and maybe situated in an area where if the child isn't in school, somebody can go and bring the child to school.