Dr. Eddie Murphy:

It is how we do it and finding the language to do it in the classroom. There is a concern because in the new structures in the child and family services there is an amount of psychology. In Ireland we train 35 clinical psychologists per year, which is a very low number. In terms of the new configuration in the health service, there is a concern that the activity for children in primary centres will change because there is a risk that psychology will be plucked from primary care and put into the new child agency with a child protection focus so they will not have the professionals on the ground to support teachers and give them messages. There are some very good programmes that can take place in the school environment, such as the friends programme which looks at building school resilience in the primary school setting and can support the conversation about increasing the children's resilience and self-esteem. One of the areas of concern about bullying is to try to impact on the bystander, to increase the role of the bystander to intervene. If that happens, it would reduce the amount of bullying and the consequences on the self-esteem.