Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Whole-School Approaches to Mental Health and Bullying: Discussion

2:30 pm

Photo of Aodhán Ó RíordáinAodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for attending. This is an issue we will have to come back to. From a school perspective, the various agencies they must deal with and the responsibilities that come under Departments, be it Health, Education and Skills, Children and Youth Affairs or whatever, is frustrating. We will send on the presentations to the Minister for Education and Skills but we will ask Department of Health officials to appear before the committee to give us more insight into how we can overcome the difficulties. I thank the witnesses for their excellent presentations. I am sorry the time was short but we got a huge amount from the presentations.

We will suspend briefly while the next witnesses come in. I ask members to remain if they possibly can do so because those making the next presentation have been waiting two hours.

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