Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I will certainly familiarise myself with that American example. Much progress has been made by the higher education sector in recent years, as, quite frankly, it had to be made. We need to take these programmes out from behind the walls of the universities and make them more widely available across society. Professor Crowley has led in that regard. There has also been the good example of the active consent programme in NUI Galway under Pádraig MacNeela. We now have an online hub regarding consent. Any student, parent or teacher can access different information appropriate to them around the whole issue of consent. My colleague, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, is overseeing a new strategy, the third national strategy on gender-based and domestic violence, and the zero-tolerance approach. These actions will feed in as a core part of achieving the societal change we need to achieve.

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