Ms Clodagh McDonnell:

Just to add to what to Mr. Mulherin has said, we obviously work centrally with our colleagues across Government and we are represented on various groups centrally. For us really it is about where the top-down meets bottom-up as regards structures locally. The Department of Rural and Community Development works very closely with local government and local authorities around the local community development committees and the public participation networks. Our colleagues in the Department of Social Protection are very well represented locally on those structures and feed into them. It is about first, creating awareness of the sustainable development goals and essentially working with our colleagues and collaborating on the ground, as well as obviously taking our lead from the centre and working centrally. The local community development committees are key here. As Mr. Mulherin said, local authorities and local libraries have been really strong and progressive in implementing actions to create awareness. For instance, libraries are different to when we went to them as children. They are much more inclusive, welcoming and inviting in terms of what they are doing and of promoting the sustainable development goals and other actions. There is a lot happening and a lot of progress has been made. We are on a journey here and I think colleagues would agree in relation to this.