Mr. James O'Brien:

Education is the most important thing when it comes to interesting the disinterested, as Ms Agrawal put it. If people are educated properly, one will naturally find that far more people want to be heard. As Mr. Galvin stated, the CSPE and SPHE programmes are flawed, but they are a good starting point on which to build. A change, even a minor one, in the curriculum is all that is needed to light the spark.

As regards the most important issues, there is an argument to be made that climate change is the most important issue because it relates to where young people will be going. If something is not done about it, they will be living in a world that is not feasible to live in. That is a major point of education in the context of the programmes as well. Mental health is another good one, as is support for minority groups such as the LGBTQ community. That support has been getting a lot better in recent years but there is still a deficit there in terms of how minority groups are seen and treated.