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- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Does the client pay the €150 himself or herself?
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Yes.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: That is interesting from the point of view of the victim. There is no two ways about that.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: As I said in the beginning, I am impressed with what I have heard so far. Could I ask about insurance costs and so forth? It appears to me that it would be a huge advantage to insurance companies to have this type of programme rolled out across the country because the savings they would make, for example in reducing accidents alone, would be pretty big. Has the positive benefit per...
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: A figure of $2,400 has been suggested here.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Of course. Maybe some of the universities might take that on and give a hand.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Maybe they are watching today.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Mr. Doggett mentioned the Etruscan centre, representatives of which came to see us some years ago. They are involved in anger management and stuff like that.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: I am familiar with the Care After Prison model.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: It is a great organisation. Yesterday, I visited the Churchfield Community Trust in Cork, which has a similar type of model. Last week, a number of us were in Portugal to look at its drug policy, whereby it diverts people from the criminal justice system to rehabilitation, counselling and treatment. Again, it seems a very positive approach.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: From that point of view, I and, I am sure, my justice committee colleagues would be very interested in supporting this in any way we can and in learning more about what the programme does.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Of course.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: If we make the roads safer, we make them safer for everybody.
- 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 (10 Jun 2015) David Stanton: Does the programme have a presence on social media?
- Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Jun 2015)
David Stanton: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 26 March 2015, the number of persons currently undertaking apprenticeships, and the sectors in which they are training; the interest from employers and education providers in the call for new apprenticeships, since it issued in January 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18398/15]
- Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Jun 2015)
David Stanton: How many people are currently training as apprentices and what plans are there for apprenticeships in the future? Would the Minister of State agree that we need a major expansion in both the number of apprenticeships and the areas covered by them?
- Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Jun 2015)
David Stanton: Will the Minister of State indicate his targets in respect to the number of apprentices he would like to see involved in the various areas eventually? What are the targets? What capacity is there for dealing with the level of applications? In other words, how many have applied for each apprenticeship and how many have been facilitated? Am I correct that the number of applicants far...
- Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Jun 2015)
David Stanton: Will the Minister of State comment on the Department's targets? What numbers would it like to see in apprenticeships? Will he also comment on the level of interest and the capacity to facilitate those interested? What is the State's role in providing apprenticeships and what is it doing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
David Stanton: Thank you Co-Chairman. The Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality is very happy to join our colleagues on the Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions for this important meeting. I believe this is the first time that committees have come together in this format in this Dáil so it is a first to have a joint meeting of two committees. Perhaps we should do it more often...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ireland's Compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights: Discussion (10 Jun 2015)
David Stanton: I presume when you referred to the transcripts being made available, Co-Chairman, that included submissions. Is it agreed that they be made available as well? Agreed. I have a question on the issue of prisoners in custody and the safeguarding of same. We have had a number of fatalities and incidents in prisons in which people have lost their lives for various reasons, either through...