Mr. Chris Quinn:

Yes. Briefly, I represent the Northern Ireland Youth Forum which is a youth-led regional body in the North of Ireland. Without repeating what many of my colleagues have said, I would echo their sentiments. The question asked was what do we want members of this committee to do and how can we make more safe co-operation happen. I can inform the committee that the youth forum has just received some funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs to set up a North-South youth forum. This is something for which we have worked for 13 years. It was very much based on the architecture of the Good Friday Agreement. Part of that lobby involved a lobby for a Northern Ireland youth assembly, which has just been established this year under the speaker of the house in Northern Ireland. We are very much pushing towards making that a sustainable and a very youth-led body. The North-South youth forum is a big project of ours at the moment. In terms of what can the committee do, essentially, there are four asks.

We have a survey open at the moment in which we are asking young people North and South what their issues are and if they would like to be involved in a North-South youth forum. To date, they have spoken about having an interest in mental health, human rights, environmental issues, education and discrimination. We want to push that, particularly with young people in the Twenty-six Counties, over the next two or three months. It would be amazing if the committee could help us with that. We also want to-----