Dr. Katie Sweeney:

I might start and then hand over to Creative Ireland. It is important to put the charter and pillar 1 of Creative Ireland in context. The charter was designed to deal with everyone up to the age of 18 years. Creative Ireland deals with creative youth, which covers those aged 0 to 22 or 23 years. From the perspective of those aged from 0 to 18 years, that involves early years and primary and post-primary level. If one was to talk about the next element, which involves third level or further education, that comes within the remit of the universities and would be under the auspices of SOLAS, for life-long learning outside of formal education, and the Arts Council, from the perspective of the arts. That is not to say that all of that is not happening.

Maybe a greater realignment at that level between SOLAS and what the universities are doing would bring us to where we are. There are five pillars to Creative Ireland and we have spoken only of pillar 1 in the context of arts and education. There is the community and so on. Perhaps Ms Copeland would like to speak about that.