Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Ann Piggott:
The data that exists is the really bad data, which is the number of students who have died by suicide. Perhaps we need to start looking at schools and see where the high numbers are, monitoring those and going into those schools. Every school should have templates that are filled out by teachers when students are bullied. That has to be the unfortunate starting point, and work from there. Otherwise, who can tell when it starts? It probably never finishes.