Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 April 2003
Crime Levels: Statements.
Another example I would give is the cutting back of community employment schemes. It is important to keep young people involved in voluntary activity and the cutting back of CE schemes is not helping in that regard. For example, in my area there are two schools which were to get sports extensions. One of the reasons was that they are in a drug task force area. Unfortunately those projects are now on hold because of difficulties in the Department of Education and Science. If the Minister wants to deal with the causes of crime, he must provide the investment and the infrastructure.
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