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

Time prevents me from doing so now but counselling will be part and parcel of the measures. That feeds into the earlier question on guidance counsellors and the question of pastoral care in second level schools. The issue is embodied in part by the new proposals for junior cycle reform, with an aim of helping young people to be conscious of their own well-being and minding themselves. Those issues were never mainstreamed in the past but we will do so in the reformed curriculum of the junior cycle.

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