Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Acting Chairman will appreciate why I responded. I will just say that this is an opportunity for us in this Chamber to stop patronising young people, to involve them in a real way in the political process and, perhaps, God forbid, to capture the imagination of young people across the State and, in a tangible way, empower them to be involved in who represents them at local and European elections. These are our future - there is that word again - leaders. Let us stop patronising them.