Survey: Youth do not keep up to date on Oireachtas

Half of young people do not keep informed about the Oireachtas and a lack of knowledge about the parliament could be leading to people’s negative attitude towards it, research says.

The survey also reveals that more than 25% of people questioned did not know what made up the Houses of the Oireachtas, which consists of the Dáil, Seanad, and office of the President.

The MRBI research, released yesterday, was carried out for the Oireachtas and surveyed 1,002 respondents last October, aged 15 and older. It examined what people knew about the Houses of the Oireachtas, its members, and how they gathered their information about the parliament.