Mr. Seán Fallon:

We did not study cyberbullying separately because we view it as being part of a wide range of bullying activities. I can speak about the school where I taught and can vouch that the amount of bullying was reduced. We monitored it each year and found a way to indicate the success of the campaign and whether cases had been resolved. Bullying still happened but we examined whether cases had been resolved even though it is very difficult to quantify in numbers. The system gathered statistics from the start of the programme that we operated in the school in which I taught. They indicated that either the situation was resolved fully to the satisfaction of everybody without a backlash or it was not. On that basis our success rate for the first number of years was better than 90% full resolution in all kinds of bullying as they arose. For the past three years since I have been out of the school, and in every single case without exception, there has been full resolution with no backlash for anybody and everybody lived happily ever after. We did not conduct a study on just cyberbullying so it is opportune that the committee is examining cyberbullying now.