Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Joint Sitting with the Joint Comittee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Pro-Social Drivers Programme: Pro-Social Ireland
11:00 am
Mr. Martin McFadden:
I will take that question. I thank both Donegal Deputies, who have been very supportive of our programme, as have all Deputies across the county and across the board, which is fantastic. Our aim is to bring the programme around the country, and that we would be in a position to train the trainers. We are very mindful of our present location. It is local and quite insular and there would be challenges for us in bringing the programme to different parts of the country. There would be different localities, situations and environments, and we are very conscious of that. That is what Mr. McCusker would also have said. In our strategy for the next five years, we have taken all that into account. Certainly, to expand the programme, we would be looking to place facilitators in different parts of the country to work within their own areas.
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