Mr. Joe O'Donnell:

What we have tried to do is create a process of convenience. While we all come from the community sector, we all work in different fields. It may be just easier to explain it that way. We are bringing forward this document, Galvanising the Peace, as a consultative document. We will bring it around the community sector initially but it will be across wider civic society in the end. The intention is we will bring it to a conference in December.

Hopefully, we will have it endorsed in time for the elections and parties might agree to support it in the forthcoming elections next year. I want to emphasise it is still a consultative process. The intention behind it is non-confrontational. We do not want to get into an "us and them" situation with our political representatives. We see this as being very much a collaborative process. Perhaps the role we are trying to bring forward involves being critical friends but it certainly involves being collaborative partners and most definitely persuaders for peace.

We would like to be part of the heavy lifting. We realise that in terms of legislation, politicians need to bring those measures forward but we hope they would look upon the community sector in general and perhaps ourselves in particular as those prepared to labour to bring forward those endeavours. Part of the document was born out of a sense of frustration with "in-out" politics, such as the crisis management that we continually lurch towards or the fact that we are always held hostage by the negative media sensation. This is the new crash. I do not now think it is any surprise to the committee or others to find that we probably totally endorse all of the things that were said earlier in terms of the bill of rights, perhaps not in the articulate manner set out by Professor McWilliams but certainly in terms of what that means, the expectations people have about it and the engagement civic society would like to have.

To move on to what Deputy Ferris asked about, perhaps Mr. Poole and then Ms Jones will address those two issues and maybe pick up the part relating to young people.