Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a challenge for the witnesses as students, in that type of situation, to know who to go to. What is the process? It is a challenge for every school. Hugh spoke about a well-being charter. I am not sure if the witnesses' schools have well-being charters. It is a proposal or recommendation made by Hugh. It should be drawn up by students rather than teachers.

I was in Coláiste Bríde in Enniscorthy, which the witnesses are all very much aware of, on Friday morning. It was information week about college. One of their younger teachers - younger than I am anyway - in his 30s was a panellist and spoke of his experience of going to college. The students grilled him on everything, including points, life in college, how he got through it and so on. I was speaking afterwards, wrapping up, and said that when I was going to secondary school, there was no way a student would be allowed or have the confidence to do that, or that a teacher would sit there and be grilled about his or her experience in college. It was breathtaking and fantastic for all the sixth years to be given the opportunity to ask whatever questions they wanted of one of their teachers.

The importance of introducing the LGBTQ strategy in all schools was mentioned. Will the witnesses stress to the committee, as though the Minister was in front of them, the importance of that strategy in each school?