Young people are being groomed into the drug trade "every day", a north Dublin councillor has warned.
Councillor Noeleen Reilly, who represents the Ballymun-Finglas area, said she wants "severe penalties" for anyone who grooms youngsters to get involved in crime.
A parliamentary question by Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Department of Justice to supply the number of people who have been convicted for grooming young people into the drug trade.