John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The following was one of the things I was proud of last year in the budget. Unions came up with it and persuaded the Department of Education to look at it. The INTO had four asks, one of them around well-being. It was significant the Minister, Deputy Foley, took it on. In my experience, this is the first time a well-being piece was not located exclusively in the Department of Health. That is necessary. Mr. Gloster talked about promoting well-being and that cannot be left to the HSE and Department of Health. I do not mean because they are not capable of it but because we need to develop a mentality whereby every Department, from the Department of Foreign Affairs right through to the Department of Education, has a well-being responsibility and should be allocating budget within that Department to the issue.