Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is very important that we do so. One speaker referred to 26 years of research. This is the thing about which I despair the most. Dr. O'Reilly described matters in terms of a whole school and whole community approach. I was involved with Trinity College's anti-bullying centre with Dr. Stephen Minton 15 or 16 years ago. I will separate issues relating to autism because I am not familiar with those matters. What is happening such that the research is not transforming into implementation? Sometimes it appears that silo research is being done. One institute will be doing this while another will be doing that. There is almost an industry around bullying and mental health. Actually, I would not say "almost an industry"; there is an industry. Huge amounts of money have been spent on it across the board over the past three decades. Is there less bullying in schools now than there was before this started three decades ago? Are we really making an impact when we see some of the figures that are still coming out relating to the number of children experiencing bullying in schools?