Results 1,541-1,560 of 2,551 for speaker:Pat Carey

National Drugs Strategy. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: The projects are having an impact. One of the best projects I have seen in recent times is the transition year project in the Deputy's area which is run in conjunction with the Ballyfermot youth service and local schools and which relates to raising awareness of drugs and alcohol misuse. The Deputy is well aware of Base and other projects in Ballyfermot, Inchicore and the south inner city...

Volunteer Movement. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 83 together. It is certainly encouraging that the ESRI statistics show an increase in the figures volunteering and back up the findings of the taskforce on active citizenship, which reported earlier this year. My Department has been steadily increasing support and funding to strengthen volunteering over the past two years. Chief among those measures...

Volunteer Movement. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: During the consultation process on the White Paper on supporting voluntary activity, I understand a wide range of road shows were held and regional consultations took place. There was consultation with the primary voluntary stakeholders. The same exercise was carried out during the consultation phase of the task force on active citizenship. I am aware it engaged extremely proactively with...

Volunteer Movement. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: I cannot comment exactly on what legislative proposals there may be, but Deputy Ring raised a valid point about the risk posed to people in getting involved in any form of activity, whether it is voluntary or otherwise. Earlier this week, my Department funded 64 national organisations across a wide range of disciplines. This was to enable them to provide a range of supports to volunteers...

Volunteer Movement. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: The issue of commuting poses challenges for a number of people. In many ways, this was dealt with by newer communities in expanding towns in Leinster. One of the ways my Department will engage with these towns is through the young people's facilities and services fund and by providing additional facilities for communities, ensuring more people work with clubs and organisations. We should...

National Drugs Strategy. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: During the term of this Government, we will continue to develop and strengthen the range of projects being undertaken through the local and regional drugs task forces under the national drugs strategy. In this regard, we will be informed by the work of the drugs task forces regarding the needs identified in their areas to tackle the problems associated with drug misuse. I envisage that the...

National Drugs Strategy. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: A key part of the national drugs strategy is precisely what Deputy Wall mentioned, namely, creating alternatives. This is being done, primarily through the young people's facilities and services fund which is an engagement with existing organisations. I do not want to provide another layer of development. I am anxious that we work with existing organisations, local authorities, national...

National Drugs Strategy. (5 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: In regard to Deputy Ring's last question, an effective social, personal and health education, SPHE, programme is operating in every school. It is taught to junior certificate level and the National Council for Curriculum Assessment is now working on developing a programme for senior cycle. As I noted earlier, valuable programmes are being rolled out at local level and in-service training...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Dec 2007)

Pat Carey: Details of organisations who received funding under the Programme of Grants for Locally-Based Community and Voluntary Organisations from 2003 to date are available on my Department's website at www.pobail.ie. Details of funding prior to 2003 are available in the Dáil Library for the information of members.

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.

Human Rights Issues. (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: Moreover, that a particular aircraft is rumoured to have been associated with the CIA on, for example, certain Internet blogs does not constitute probable cause to ground an inspection.

Human Rights Issues. (29 Nov 2007)

Pat Carey: The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has repeatedly stated that any person with credible information that Irish airports have been used for any alleged unlawful purpose should report his or her concerns to the Garda Síochána. It remains the case that on the basis of such reporting or any other information on foot of which the Garda Síochána has reasonable cause to suspect...

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.