Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Does the Taoiseach know how many submissions the Taskforce on Active Citizenship has received? How does it intend to proceed and when will it report? In terms of what the Taoiseach said on the difference between voluntary activity and active citizenship, would he agree that the main impediment to active citizenship is the modern lifestyle and demands on people's lives? The poor delivery of public services, for example, may see a person caught on the West-Link toll bridge for an hour and 20 minutes twice a day and he or she will not have much time to train the under 11s team. Inadequate public services — poor public transport and so on — are the real restriction on people's freedom.

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