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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I have a question on how this will be rolled out regionally. How will that be possible? Reference was made to the numbers but we have many thousands of students at both primary and secondary level. How will this be done in a regional way that will have an impact in the next two to three years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: The Department will be looking at a regional roll-out of the FUSE programme. That means providing more facilitators.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: It is crucial. What I would like to see from the Department is a target. If I said to Ms Murray there is a target for the roll-out of FUSE, be it at certain levels or certain years at secondary school level, what would that be? Where can we see that we will be able to reach all schools, considering it is continuous as well. That is a question I would like Ms Murray to come back to me on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I thank Ms Tansey. I do not know if I have another minute or is my time all gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Thank you very much. Ms Keating answered regarding the audit, from what I understand. In the inspectorate reports, should a section on bullying be available? It is up on the website, www.education.ie. When one enters a school name, one gets all the details. Should that inspectorate report include a section on how that school tackles bullying. They talk about child safeguarding but that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Is there a reference to bullying under that section? Is there a section that refers specifically to the word "bullying" and "tackling bullying"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Bullying happens all the time. This is what we have come to learn. It is in every school. My God, it is in a lot of walks of life. Should it not be the fact that there is a section in there that has to be completed for each school and if there have not been issues that they have been dealing with then the question has to be, "Why have they not been dealing with this?" Should that not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I thank Ms Keating. I take it then that, from January 2022, those school inspectorate reports will have a section, according to the headings she mentioned, to include tackling bullying, and it will be a term that is included in that report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I have a question for the principal officers. What does an ideal school environment look like? It is a question I have posed to a number of the witnesses who have presented to us, particularly principals. Can the Department officials name a perfect pilot school or one which they would say is a great environment where the principals, teachers, parents and the board of management are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: It would be great to have some sort of word for our perfect school. I am thinking of a sort of champion school or advocacy school in each of our regional areas. There would be kudos for the school in being open and handling these things well. Sometimes it is unfortunately seen as a stereotypical weakness if this is being talked about. Parents might say they do not want to send their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: I do not see the successful indicators in the document submitted to us. I went through it again. Could this be sent on? Perhaps it is in a different document referenced by Ms Tansey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Could this document be circulated to us? The witnesses mentioned a report on whole-school evaluations and said that it was very positive. I am just really surprised. I am just going through the detail again. How many schools were involved again? There are approximately 3,000 primary and 700 secondary schools. How many schools were involved in this whole-school evaluation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: This is a very interesting topic. I welcome Hugh. It is great to have him at the meeting. He is the youngest witness ever. That is brilliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: What year are you in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: What subjects are you picking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: Excellent. It is when one has to choose the subjects that one has to make some hard decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Aisling Dolan: He might need to click it once more. It was going on and off.