Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Europe Day and the European Year of Youth 2022: Engagement with Comhairle na nÓg

Ms Prachi Agrawal:

With regard to law becoming a subject, I agree with Mr. Galvin's point on interests. If law becomes the subject, why would we not learn about engineering at post-primary level? Law is important in the sense that we should know about the Constitution and our rights, but it could be introduced through other ways in the curriculum, such as civil social and political education courses or social, personal and health education. Law as a subject on its own might not appeal to many people. It might cause some people to lose interest because they would have been learning it for six years and would think they know everything they need to know about it. This is my opinion. I do not think law should be a subject but we should learn about certain aspects of it such as the Constitution.

With regard to climate change and analysing exactly what needs to be done, in our organisation we focus on issues that affect young people such as fast fashion. We have worked on this for the past two years. Identifying how it affects us is the way we analyse it. Climate change impacts different people in different ways. Everyone has some solutions.