Ms Deirdre McDonnell:

I will give a quick summary and some of my colleagues may then add to it.

With regard to monitoring, as raised by Deputy O'Brien, we have a couple of relevant actions in the action plan on bullying with regard to monitoring in SPHE inspections and whole-school evaluation. It is a question of building it in for the future in schools' self-evaluation.

With regard to some of the cyber issues that were raised, schools generally have acceptable-use policies. There is guidance from Webwise on how to develop them in a template. We have recommended in the action plan on bullying that the bullying policy in a school be linked to the code of behaviour and other relevant policies, such as acceptable-use policies. This is because bullying cannot be regarded as a stand-alone issue; the policy on it needs to be linked to other relevant policies.