Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The NCSE's report to the Minister also recommended that the two education programmes, the Incredible Years programme and the Friends programme, which have recently undergone trial successfully in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, would be rolled out across the country. The Friends programme helps the students to manage the behaviour themselves and also to recognise when they are feeling anxious and to develop coping skills to deal with that. They seem to have worked well. The NCSE recommends that the programmes be rolled out nationally. I would ask the Minister for his initial thoughts on those two recommendations.

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