Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Evelyn O'Connor:

It is an excellent initiative and it is much more than keeping the place clean. It is an environmental initiative as well and has the advantage of bringing everybody together. One of my sisters and her husband and children go out setting the plants, cleaning the place up, digging and meeting community members. That gives them a good basis and gives the children the interest for going forward. The more we can do that, the better. I will bring in my colleague Ms De Khors because we have a newsletter on sustainable development we share with schools and organisations and there are many examples in that of what kind of things schoolchildren can do.