Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

With the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use completing its deliberations recently, it prompts two questions. First, how we can ensure that the very good work our citizens' assemblies are producing are not just reports that are idly left on a shelf and that the recommendations are actually implemented in a meaningful way? Second, another citizens' assembly promised in the programme for Government is one to look at the future of education, ensuring that the voices of young people and those being educated are central to that. I also mention the work that needs to be done on a comprehensive policy for the Irish language from pre-primary education to teacher education. When will that citizens' assembly be convened and set about its work?

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