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

The inspectorate has an important role here, as it visits schools, and the whole-school evaluation process includes procedures relating to bullying, so we have those measures in place. I do not have specific statistics for what incidents of bullying we would be made aware of. I can come back to the Deputy on that if there are specific figures. It is one of those areas we need to monitor constantly because we have to ensure that what is in place in such areas is effective with regard to new issues like cyberbullying, for example. The information we have is that bullying is bullying, irrespective of the medium, and the same kind of preventative measures and interventions work as much for cyberbullying as for the more traditional forms of bullying of which we would be aware. It is an area we must monitor constantly. I will come back to the Deputy on the specifics of numbers.

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