Ms Julie O'Neill:

A good deal of excellent work is going on. The authority has produced a wonderful teaching pack that is used with young children in primary schools now. It is fabulous and involves games and so on to encourage them. It is a little like what has happened in waste management over the years. I find it fascinating when I see five and six-year-olds coming home from school and telling their mothers and fathers to turn off the lights and not to charge their mobile telephones through the night and so on. Exciting work is going on in this area. There is a competition supported and sponsored by SEAI that encourages youngsters to come forward with what are essentially small business ideas. That is in primary school and secondary school. I would like to see more of that.