Professor Barbara Dooley:

I thank the Chair for that question. The first issue he asked about was sexual consent and respect for people. It is really important that we are doing this in the universities and there is a major campaign in UCD at the moment about sexual harassment, positive culture, respect, saying "No", active consent and also bystander training. Many universities and colleges are doing that. That behaviour may have started much earlier in a young person's life in school. There was a lot of reporting over the weekend about young people having access to pornography, the sexualising of women and seeing this content from a much earlier age. We need to think about how we educate young people at a much earlier age about respect, consent, valuing people and valuing difference and diversity. The Chair spoke about young people who may not identify as being heterosexual. Whatever it is they identify, whether it is their sexual identity or their sexual orientation, it is important that there is that respect. We need to have those conversations and have them earlier at second level so it becomes a thing that all people and all diversity are valued.