Ms Patricia O'Sullivan:

What we need is one early intervention. When we talk about sexual orientation I would go back to primary school. The conversation needs to be normal. Professor Dooley made the point with regard to pornography and respect for women that students may have encountered these issues even before secondary school. We need to counter-challenge it and have normal conversations that sexual orientation is their business as long as they are not harming anybody else. We need mentors, ambassadors and people in the primary and secondary schools showing that sexual orientation is the students' preference. Consent and respect should be part of all levels of the education cycle. It does not leave us when we finish formal education, whether at school or in tertiary education. It is lifelong and that is the message and that is where it should be. That will support mental health.

The Chair made a comment about how we have come a long way in the last few decades. We can go a lot further.