Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail)
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Ms Murphy is right about many of the initiatives that students have undertaken. I compliment them on that. I would argue that it should be students and young people should be educating older generations far more about the need for climate action and sustainability development. I do not doubt the importance of peer education or younger people mentoring older people on some of these matters. I might throw one challenge in Ms Murphy's direction. One of the challenges now in almost all higher education and university campuses relates to is parking. It is generally not the staff who are dominating the car parks; it is the students. Is there more of a challenge now that students have adopted far more of a car culture. There is certain evidence of this at second level as well. Some of our second level colleagues might also want to comment on that.