Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Question 36: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress which has been made in progressing the White Paper on voluntary activity. [22738/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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With regard to progress made to date on implementation of the White Paper, I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 30 of 19 May 2005. As I stated in that reply, the White Paper remains Government policy. However, the White Paper is now five years old and the context in which White Paper policy is to be implemented has clearly changed with time. Against this background of change my Department has now commissioned a consultancy to advise the Department on practical measures to further advance the key principles set out in the White Paper.