Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion

Photo of Aisling DolanAisling Dolan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Ms McDowell spoke about the new subjects, which I wanted to ask about so I thank her for that. The active consent programme has been in place for the past five years. I know Ms McDowell has been doing evidence-based research since 2013 and probably the same applies to the bystander intervention programme. What are the targets for the next five years? There are already 70,000 first-year college students, 1,000 parents online and 4,000 pupils in secondary schools. That is what has happened. What is planned for the next five years? I address the question to Dr. MacNeela and Professor Crowley.

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