Ms Doreen McMorris:

To address Deputy Jonathan O'Brien's question on student questionnaires. We provide questionnaires to students at primary and post-primary level and ask them about bullying. I do not have the data to hand, but they are asked about how safe they feel in school etc. It is one dimension of how we try to ensure practices are being implemented. They raise questions for individual schools. The questionnaires are all anonymous. In our reports, we refer to the questions that the analysis of the questionnaires raises for schools. If the results for a school are out of kilter with national returns, there are questions for that school.