Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Engagement with Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
2:00 am
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
It is not there yet. I will come back to the Deputy with a note on that, if that is okay. I do not have the detail with me today. There are a number of different mental health schemes within the colleges. Different supports are available. Some colleges have their own supports. A wider mechanism is available under some of the national schemes. We had an exchange previously about some intimidation and assaults on campus. There have been some very unpleasant and unwarranted incidents. A lot of the student experience is coming in as a subset of wider national strategies, including the national strategy on domestic and sexual violence, which I was involved in when I chaired the justice committee. Many of these plans are at national level but there is a student component to them. I will come back to the Deputy with details on that.
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