Marie Moloney (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will not keep the delegation long because, in fairness to it, it has covered many of the issues I was going to raise, particularly on raising awareness among and teaching parents. The latter is very important.

I welcome the allocation of €500,000 for the action plan on bullying. While it is a step in the right direction, the funding will be very much diluted when divided between all the schools. I hope we will see more in this regard.

I have a couple of questions. Is there monitoring of students' use of social media, such as Facebook and Bebo, within schools? Do the delegates ever use the services of Jigsaw? It is very popular among students. Could representatives of Jigsaw be asked to give talks to students?

In my locality within the past few months, two young boys from the same school committed suicide. They were of different cultures and nationalities and I am not sure whether the two incidents were related. This was an eye-opener and it was shocking. One often wonders what could be on young people's minds because they do not have worries about repaying mortgages, finding a job or other such troubles. I listened to what was said on the radio over the past few days, and about . I actually thought I was broad-minded but what I heard was an absolute eye-opener regarding what young people have to deal with. I raised two children and never encountered anything like what was mentioned occurring. It was shocking to learn that teenagers could-----