Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

Like the other Deputies, I welcome the task force on active citizenship and wish Ms Mary Davis well in her job. I hope the task force will be able to highlight the main barriers to active citizenship for many people and consider that aspect, as well as how to encourage people to give up their time freely. Barriers include exorbitant mortgage payments, which people have to work long hours to meet. People are stuck in traffic because of inadequate public transport and the chaos on our roads.

I wish to return to the point made by Deputy Kenny with regard to the rapid inflation of immigrant communities. Despite what the Taoiseach stated, there are ways of ensuring immigrant communities can be represented, and groups are there which could do this.

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