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 Sophie Corry:
The group have been working over the past six weeks on initiating this campaign and had so many ideas that they want to challenge with, as future leaders. They take it and run with it, but this is the one that they wanted to focus on. As Zoe and some of the others have said, it is personal for them. For us going forward, they have six months left in the programme, and we will be continuing this. For me, my role will be continuing to work with the group and looking at how we can implement this within our own group, whether that is looking at doing sign language courses or something like that. We are actual role models for it as well. We are not just sitting here doing a presentation for it. We are actually putting that into action and they can take it into their own individual communities. There is no doubt today that they will be future leaders and will continue to be leaders on every issue they want to focus on. As I said, last year, they focused on mental health and drug awareness. That was a social media campaign through Co-operation Ireland. That reached the whole island of Ireland, which was fantastic. We have every confidence that they will continue to do more and we will support them to do that.
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