Ms Prachi Agrawal:

With regard to the Deputy's first question on how to interest the disinterested, I do not think that people are not interested. Obviously, you will find people who do not find interest in these things but the majority of the time, people just do not know that these things exist because we have not been taught that in school. In junior cycle, civic, social and political education, CSPE, was a one-hour class every week. Sometimes, we did national news and at other times we talked about recent news stories but it was not a set curriculum in which we had discussions about the European Union, the UN or policies that affect this generation.

Only certain people take either politics and society or economics, where the European Union is discussed in that sense, as leaving certificate subjects. Interesting this generation would be just showing it information. You would then naturally find people who did not think they were interested but when they have been given the source through education and have to get to school and sit through and listen to it, you would find many of them are interested. I do not know how we would interest the disinterested but I keep bringing up education because it is very important. Education on the European Union and international affairs is crucial. I have forgotten the Deputy's second question.