Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is one of the areas we will start looking at when we get extra funding. A number of priorities are brought to my attention all the time when I meet people in the education sector. Psychologists from the National Educational Psychological Service are also available to all schools now and the subject of well-being is one of the areas being discussed in the context of reform of the junior cycle. There are guidelines for this and I have committed to having well-being as part of the curriculum for junior cycle students. This is designed to address the whole area of anxiety and all the mental health issues with which young people are faced and have to contend. The issue of guidance counsellors being ex-quota and specifically provided for within the school system is one of a number of things we will look at.

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