Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue with me. Access to sexual and health education is an important right for students. I do not want to single out any particular school and I do not have the full details in regard to it. From the Government’s perspective, we are updating relationships and sexuality education and the social, personal and health education, SPHE, curriculum for primary, junior cycle and senior cycle. They are being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. A revised junior cycle specification will be completed by the end of 2022, followed by updated senior cycle and primary specifications. On 19 April, the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, announced her intention to provide funding for a new postgraduate programme to upskill registered post-primary teachers teaching social, personal and health education and relationships and sexuality education. In essence, the updating and modernisation of the curriculum is the key essential there, as is the provision of continued professional development to the teachers to deliver this.

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