Mr. Shari Irfan:

As I mentioned, there are green schools committees within schools that take proactive action locally. Students in general are disenfranchised with politics and their county councils. They see them as these old institutions that have nothing to do with them. I believe that county councillors and local communities need to do a lot better in making young people care. Young people are not going to come to politicians when they are already looking at these institutions and feel disenfranchised as they are not representative of them. Part of that is campaigning and about communication around how do we make young people get involved. It is about going to get them where they are. They are in their green schools committees and if Tidy Towns were to target those green schools committees within schools they would have a much higher percentage of young people who are actively interested in climate action and sustainable development.