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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Professor Hymel mentioned in reply to Deputy Ó Murchú forms of social and relational bullying. Have we to be careful that we do not interfere too much in the ability of children to form relationships? Obviously, a child may feel excluded by other children who have formed friendships. There may be no intention behind the exclusion of that child, however. Is that something we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Professor Hymel mentioned developing social skills in the school environment and programmes to develop empathy. At what stage would she recommend that these programmes be commenced by educators?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: In his submission, Dr. Downes said there also needed to be early intervention. At what age has he in mind for children who are attending school?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Dr. Downes referred to negative parenting practices and how they can have an impact on the child. This is an area about which we have to be sensitive because it is impinging on the relationship between the child and parent. What can one do to counteract a situation where there are parents who are inflicting negative parenting practices on their child that may subsequently result in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Professor Cefai referred to the need for educators to provide socio-emotional education to children. That is similar to what Professor Hymel and Dr. Downes spoke about. At what age does Professor Cefai envisage that commencing?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Law Reform (3 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the laws around defamation. [29965/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (3 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report on familicide will be published. [29966/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome our guests and thank them for their thoughtful contributions. My first question is to Ms O'Connor. I was very interested in what she has to say in respect of the past 15 months or so and how it appears to be noticeable that schools have to deal with the consequences of bullying by way of cyberbullying taking place outside of the school context. Are we putting too much of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Ms O'Connor. In terms of the role parents have to play, as a principal, what does Ms O'Connor like to see parents do to meet the challenge of bullying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: My next question is in regard Mr. Irwin's statement that the culture of the school is very important when it comes to responding to bullying and deterring bullying. How is that school culture formed and what can we as legislators do to try to ensure that positive culture exists throughout most of our schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would Mr. White like to comment on what we can do to mould schools' culture?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is punishment successful in trying to change the culture or behaviour of a child?

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thought the Deputy is getting five minutes after me.

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I beg the Ceann Comhairle's pardon. I was told I had 20 minutes. I beg Deputy Farrell's pardon. I will conclude as I got my timing wrong. I commend what I have suggested to the Minister and ask him to take it into consideration.

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am sharing time with Deputy Alan Farrell. I hope this is the last time in this House that we have to debate the introduction of legislation to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, the House last year enacted four items of substantive legislation as part of our response to the pandemic. We introduced the Health (Preservation and Protection and other...

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: -----virus and a developing situation that required a response from the State. On balance, when we have a review, I think it will find that the State managed circumstances quite well. As I said, we may have been too slow to impose restrictions at the beginning. I suspect another criticism may be that we were too slow to lift restrictions at the end of the pandemic. One thing we know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank our guests for giving us their time and expertise. When the Protected Disclosures Act was enacted in 2014, it was probably among the most significant legislation to have been enacted by the Oireachtas in the past 20 years or so but it is very complicated. Under section 17, protected disclosures can, in certain circumstances, be made to Members of the Oireachtas if they relate to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would the legislation benefit from strict timelines being put in place the same way that has been done in the context of some planning legislation where there are specific requirements for responses to be delivered within a number of weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: It was around the protected disclosures office.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: Finally, I ask Ms Casey, Ms Heffernan or Dr. Kierans to answer the following. Obviously, in the public mind, protected disclosure and whistleblowers are represented by people such as Sergeant McCabe or the great investigative work that Mr. Clifford does. However the vast majority of reliance upon this Act takes place within the sphere of employment law and it never really gets into the...