Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Neither the Leas-Cheann Comhairle nor I can comment on the length of Deputy Wallace's hair. This is a significant document and I am very pleased that the work done by the working group will be published on Thursday. I invite the House to consider debating the document or just perusing it. It is not the final answer and I do not know if there will ever be a final answer to the problem. Nevertheless, it is a significant advance on what was done before and the guidelines have not been revised in the past 20 years. The issue of homophobic bullying was not addressed in that context but it has been now. We have come to understand cyber-bullying as a 24/7 nightmare for some people, as bullying in the school yard, to which the Deputy referred, could at least be escaped. The issue will not go away and it requires much education and understanding right across the social and generational spectrum.

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