Ms Olive McGovern:

In the consultation process arts organisations were identified by young people as a positive place, currently. The gaps identified were much more around the sporting space. For this reason, the sport organisations were brought on to the oversight committee as a special representative body. The arts is very much a positive space. Through the creative youth programme and other spaces, the expansion of the arts programmes is very positive in terms of the LGBTI young people's lives. There was no obvious gap around the arts organisations. In our discussions on the recognition marker, the arts were an obvious first port of call as an area that would embrace it.