Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As a small aside, there were a number of hustings of candidates in schools in my constituency during the last general election and there seemed to be an interesting correlation between the result of the election in the school and the tally results for the catchment area. For example, an independent candidate who did not get elected and who fared quite poorly had a strong electoral base in the catchment area of one particular school and he came second in the mock election. Obviously that means that schoolchildren are at home listening to their parents and picking all of that stuff up.