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Charities Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I will deal with as many of the issues as we have been able to track. There was a wide range of contributors to the debate. Everybody supported the general thrust of the Bill and the charities sector and recognised the importance of the role charities play in society. That reinforces the need to have a robust yet proportionately regulated sector to ensure that public confidence and...

Charities Bill 2007: Referral to Select Committee (15 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I move: That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, in accordance with Standing Order 120(1) and paragraph 1(a)(i) of the Orders of Reference of that committee.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (20 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: As the Deputy will be aware my Department provides capital funding for projects through a number of schemes and programmes, details of which are available on the Department's website www.pobail.ie. Each of these schemes and grant programmes operated by my Department are governed by rules and eligibility criteria, which projects have to meet in order to qualify for funding. In relation to the...

Young People: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: We will have an opportunity to comprehensively address the drugs issue next week and I will refer to it in passing in this contribution. There is probably never a perfect time to discuss young people's issues. The European Youth Parliament was held in the Chamber last week and, while I was not present, I believe it addressed many of these issues. Dáil na nÓg also does good work. We need...

Young People: Motion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I did not do the inviting; I was invited myself. Young people from the local schools were present. They know what they want and made their voices heard. They want a youth centre and I suspect they will keep hounding local representatives until they get it. I encouraged them to keep it up. I attended a meeting of the regional drugs task force in Athlone yesterday. I was very impressed by...

Written Answers — Forum on Philanthropy: Forum on Philanthropy (21 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: The Forum on Philanthropy was established by Government decision in May 2006. The decision set down membership of the Forum and Terms of Reference for its work. The Forum comprises representations from Philanthropy Ireland, Atlantic Philanthropies, Community Foundation for Ireland, Charles Stuart Mott Foundation, The ONE Foundation, The Ireland Funds, the Department of Taoiseach (Chair),...

Written Answers — Drugs Awareness Campaigns: Drugs Awareness Campaigns (22 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: Responsibility for the National Drugs Awareness Campaign lies with the Health Promotion Unit of the Health Services Executive. In consultation with various parties, that Unit is currently developing a new awareness campaign which will begin its roll out early next year. This campaign may combine local elements within the broader message. No specific funding is available from my Department...

Written Answers — Drug Treatment Programmes: Drug Treatment Programmes (27 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 422 and 423 together. As set out in the Report of the Working Group on Drugs Rehabilitation, published in May of this year, the HSE will fulfil the lead role in rehabilitation. Their role includes the establishment and chairing of the National Drug Rehabilitation Implementation Committee and the employment and management of Rehabilitation Co-ordinators and...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I am pleased to have this opportunity to address the Dáil on the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008 and the mid-term review of that strategy, the outcome of which was published in March 2005. The operational timespan for the current national drugs strategy is drawing to a conclusion and I see today's debate as opening the process of drawing up a new strategy for the coming years. Already I...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: We are doing it this afternoon. When we finish this debate, we will have a question and answer session.

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: We have held a number of discussions with the Garda, medical professionals and those with ideas concerning the matter of mandatory drug testing. It can only be done on a voluntary basis in the workplace and cannot be applied compulsorily. It is disturbing that a large proportion of those tested as part of the drink driving campaign have been found to have substances other than alcohol in...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: The campaigns will be very important. The young people's facilities and services projects fund will be extended. For no other reason but to get maximum benefit, I will be engaging with the youth and sports organisations in the Leinster area. I will keep in touch with the Deputy on that matter. Education is the key to this strategy. The DEIS programme must address those issues raised by...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I do not engage day-to-day with CAB but the new Garda Commissioner's background in that area will inform much of the policing. The profiling the Deputy mentions operates in my area and has potential for other areas. Asset freezing may be a matter for domestic legislation but it is worth exploring the possibility of reducing it from seven years. CAB has begun to localise many of its...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: The Deputy need only go to places such as Clondalkin boxing club, Waterford, where I was on Tuesday, or to Knocknaheeny in Cork to see the high quality buildings funded by allocations from the €7 million young people's services and facilities fund. In Knocknaheeny there is a preschool child care centre, a community centre, a family resource centre and a community development project,...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: I will mix my replies with my wind-up speech. The national drugs strategy involves not only me, but all of us. I chair the interdepartmental committee on drugs which will meet again on 13 December. Participants come from Departments, State agencies, the community and the voluntary sector, the Garda and so on.

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: There is a Cabinet committee on social inclusion which meets as well and feeds into Government policy. I almost annoy people at this stage when I say inter-agency co-operation and collaboration is the only way forward. I do not want to see every partnership, community development project, family resource centre and drugs task force doing its own thing. That is of no value and is...

Human Rights Issues. (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: On behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, I thank Deputy Higgins for raising this matter. At the outset, let me state unequivocally that the Government is completely opposed to the practice of so-called extraordinary rendition, and our concerns in this regard have been made clear at the highest level of the US Government over an extended period of...

Human Rights Issues. (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: ——landed at Shannon Airport on 30 October last at 1.14 a.m. and departed at 2.03 a.m. It is understood this aircraft is owned by a private company based in Las Vegas. The landing was for a technical/refuelling stop and, in accordance with the Chicago Convention, aircraft may come into Ireland for such technical stops without notifying any national authority. The Minister further...

Human Rights Issues. (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: However, the Minister wishes to strongly contest any claim or suggestion that this occurred because of an "instruction" that searches in general or searches of particular types or classes of aircraft should not occur. Let me emphatically and unambiguously state in this House that no such instruction has ever been given or would or could be given by any Irish authority. On behalf of the...

Human Rights Issues. (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: ——supported by hard evidence to conduct a search of a private dwelling, so too must gardaí have similar standards of suspicion before inspecting an aircraft. The mere assertion of wrongdoing by a member of the public is clearly and obviously insufficient in this regard.