Ms Emer Neville:

Yes. What happens in many classrooms is teachers will recommend websites and such like. That is definitely something that could be used to assist education outside the classroom because it mitigates the fears of it being non-controlled if there are government-developed websites. We recently did work with the HSE crisis pregnancy programme. They are developing a website on RSE, etc. We input into that work. Such a website will be beneficial for students because if they are not getting their education in the classroom they can go home - it is a HSE-certified website - and get backed-up information about the various topics that are on it.

There is also Active Consent. They have a website. I am not entirely sure what it is called. It is another website that students can use, which is certified. It has real and good information that would be beneficial to them. It is something that teachers can point their students in the direction of. If it is a topic they are not comfortable teaching, if they do not have the knowledge to teach that topic and they feel it would be better coming from that website, they allow students. It is also something parents can point their children towards if they themselves do not know either.