Dr. Niall Muldoon:

There is a variety. We would not get an awful lot of direct complaints. Many of them might be around the bullying side of things with people being bullied for certain issues, such as racism, sexism and sexuality. They are always part of the school complaints we get. Most of the time we engage with the advocates. The concern is about safety and being yourself. The concern is that within schools, people are nervous to promote and support them any more. There are also schools that are very positive. One of the examples of where it has not been done right is in Poland. Schools there that were LGBT-supportive were picketed and seen as the wrong place to be. We cannot do that. Any one of our children should not feel insecure or unsafe. It is the same when people picket the accommodation centres or worry about them. It means the child looks out the window and says "I have done nothing but these people say I should not be here. I am not wanted." That is not the message we should be providing for Ireland.

From our point of view, the rainbow community needs to feel fully safe and supported and we will do everything we possibly can to do that and help them in that way.