Ms Billie Sparks:

To respond to Deputy Kyne, the Blue Star programme is confined to primary schools. We also run a series of talks in secondary schools entitled "The EU in 20 Minutes". Under this project, we visit schools on request and make a presentation on the European Union, ideally in 20 minutes, after which we have a questions and answers session. Prior to this academic year, we ran another second level programme entitled "My Vision for Europe". This was an all-island initiative that focused primarily on transition year students in the South and 15 to 17 year olds in Northern Ireland. The programme is not running this year, which is not to say it will not be renewed. With the Presidency and so forth taking place this year, we did not have sufficient resources to run it this year.