Mr. Hugh Ahern:

On the Deputy's first question, if students sense that there is bullying taking place inside or outside school, I believe that they would speak up. However, sometimes a student may not speak up for numerous reasons. The student may not remember it or something like that.

On the second question about SPHE and the religion course, the two courses go into where people come from and a person's background. The SPHE curriculum could go more into the background of minorities. In addition, there is not enough in the SPHE curriculum on bullying at present. I and my SPHE teacher were looking through the book in school and it is a very short chapter in the book. It is not concerning, but makes one wonder if bullying is being talked about that much.