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

If a school does not implement the strategy and guidelines and this decision is wilful, in that the school either does not agree with the strategy and guidelines or is not going to implement them, rather than the result of the school having difficulties finding the resources, that must provoke some kind of consequence. If it is because the school or board of management need assistance or guidance, we are open to looking at that, but we will not go back to the past.

We will not tolerate bullying, whether cyberbullying, identity bullying or any other kind of bullying. We have gone beyond that and that is the clear reaction from the public. I do not anticipate that any school will not want to implement the guidelines, but we have 4,000 schools and if, for whatever reason, we get evidence that a school is willfully disengaging, we cannot ignore it.

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