Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Following on from the Chairman's comments, my point relates to teacher training colleges. What is the training with regard to sex education in the colleges when a teacher embarks on his or her training in university? Will the witnesses expand on what they are told to teach and how to go about it? I imagine that for many teachers, it could be a very difficult subject to broach with their students. From a primary school perspective, it obviously needs to be age-appropriate and we understand that, but how are teachers trained with regard to teaching sex education?