Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Erika Hunter:
Definitely coming into schools, interacting in schools and youth clubs would be good. Many people in my community go to youth clubs after school. We see all the posters up on the traffic light poles and so forth. We see the faces, but we do not know who the politicians are. If they came into schools, youth groups or football clubs, young people could get to know politicians better, rather than them just seeing the faces on the billboards and saying "He looks sound; I will choose him". We do not really have anything to base our decision on. There are videos of politicians but not every young person will sit down and watch them. It would be good if we got to know how they really are and not just the things they say because they are what everyone wants to hear. We could see people's personalities if they came into schools.
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