Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In regard to capturing the young person's voice, the messaging and communications are very important. It is challenging for adults to try to design messaging to young people. I speak as a parent and I consider myself a good communicator. Is that best done locally? Is there potential for some sort of centralised method? I am struck by our youth services. For example, Dublin City Council comes with a plan, maybe for a playground or skate park. It might engage with some very young people. The local authority may have put a lot of work into designing what it thought would be a valuable space, and a significant budget would have been put aside for it. When put to the young people, however, they might say what they really are looking for is just a space of their own. As a result, the plan is not fit for purpose. There was no bad intention; it was all good intentions. How do we best get the young people's voice in? Is that at the local level or can something be done in the centre?