Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion

Ms Molly Hynes:

It is important to raise awareness for that community in every school because, not really in today's society but years ago, it was frowned upon and described as unnatural. It is important for every school to raise awareness for it. Last week, I think it was, we had a week devoted to the LGBT community and we all wore different-coloured jumpers on our PE day to make a flag. We had activities like that going all week. Every school should take part in things like that to make it part of human nature and naturalised in today's society.