1)  Investment in:

• housing and accommodation transitioning from prison 

• addiction rehabilitation and detox facilities across the country 

• recovery housing and accommodation 

2) Rights-based approach to re-integration after prison to be included in equality legislation and beyond to avoid discrimination in housing and employment markets.  

3) Widen the concept of 'trauma-sensitivity' to include more systemic factors that affect people with criminal convictions, including harms inflicted by agencies and organisations meant to provide supports.

• Cork (as with every city and county) must put into practice its “trauma sensitive” city objective – with state and semi-state services leading out in it and ensuring all staff – especially those directly meeting people – practice their work in a trauma sensitive way. 

• Staff within the IPS be developed to be trauma sensitive and understanding in their interactions with people 

4) Improvement and expansion of the spent conviction legislation – allowing people to be more than the sum of their past convictions. 

5) More constructive information campaign regarding the role of, and need for, Garda Vetting .  

6)     Criminological research is researching relationships and connections with self, community and society. When more nuanced collaborative peer-to-peer research is undertaken, which, by its very nature is  grounded in relationships, it leads to greater understanding, connections and participation. And within that trust, empowerment and ownership of responsibility develops. 

7) Honouring the “nothing about us without us” ethos means peer-to-peer research becomes more standard practice.