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There's only so much organisations can do and youth groups and youth workers and everything like that.
Like you just said, you are one.
But obviously more needs to be done and they need help.
But the people, the parents need to cop on themselves.
So I did make the point that they have been surprised.
It's not cutting the mustard, though, what's happening.
I know there is some stuff happening, what you just said there, in Ballymun, but in fairness, that's only the tip of the iceberg, what needs to happen.
I do agree with you, they do need more support, but I do think that people, parents, need to be punished for kids' antisocial behaviour.
That's something that needs to be enforced across the country, not just for the likes of Dublin.
Everyone needs to take responsibility at the end of the day.
You can drag in as many workers as you like, as many support functions, but at the end of the day, the buck has to stop with someone, and that's the parents.
Yeah, but a lot of times, 100%, yeah, there is.
But then there's parents that don't care at all.
Fine, bring them to court, whatever like that, keep fining them until they cop on and stop their kids, stop buying them scramblers and letting them out, hang out until four or five o'clock in the morning.
You know, like they can do stuff like that, but no one seems to want to.
So unless the parents actually get punished...
it's not really going to change, is it?
If they have their kids carrying out antisocial activities, you know, it's just not going to change.
So someone has to take responsibility and it has to be the parents.