Ms Mary Moynihan:

I also work as a lecturer in the BA in drama at Dublin Institute of Technology where I train young people in performance. Smashing Times theatre company set up a training course, the diploma in drama facilitation skills, which was initially funded by Special EU Programmes Body, SEUPB. The course brought together people from different communities for one year to train as facilitators in order that they could then carry on the work. We also offer a certificate in community drama. The diploma was the first course of its kind in Ireland and remains the only such course in place here. Funding should be provided for courses such as this, which can bring people from the Six Counties and other areas together. It is also important to find some way of supporting this type of accredited training.