Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Report on Positive Mental Health in Schools: Minister for Education and Skills

10:30 am

Photo of Joe McHughJoe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to forward that information to the Deputy and as final point before the Deputy leaves, whether one is a physics teacher or a French teacher one also has the mindfulness responsibility. The teachers do that really well and it is a whole-school approach which was the Deputy's number one priority coming to this committee. I do not know if her priorities were outlined chronologically but the whole-school approach was the first priority. We have to acknowledge the fact that a lot of the mindfulness, caring and child-centred approaches are already being carried out by teachers. I take the Deputy's point and I will get that information to her.

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