Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the Taoiseach
2:00 am
Erin McGreehan (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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That is for another day. I am a huge fan of the shared island unit. It has done incredible work. North Louth has been a major recipient of funding. In the second term of the shared island unit, has there been a review of the impact of what has been done? There has been so much infrastructure. How do we bring it into schools? I propose a BT Young Scientist-type project for schools for young people to get involved in putting forward their ideas. I would love to see that in schools, showing young people across the island and asking them what they want Ireland to look like in a couple of years. It is one of the underestimated parts of the programme for Government. I know the Department is busy working on this but has it looked at how to show people what the shared island unit is doing and how it is breaking down an incredible number of barriers and supports an incredible number of communities?