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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Fiona O'Loughlin: ...Ireland, ASTI; Mr. David O'Sullivan, assistant general secretary of Irish National Teachers' Organisation, INTO; and, Mr. David Duffy, education and research officer of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, TUI. Witnesses are here today to brief the committee on school bullying and its impact on mental health. The format of the meeting is that I will invite Mr. Ryan to make an opening...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Fiona O'Loughlin: The final witness is Mr. David Duffy, education and research officer of the TUI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Mr. David Duffy: The TUI thanks the Chair and the committee for the opportunity to make this opening statement. I will be pleased to answer any questions thereafter. Bullying is a damaging experience for students and the wider school community. The TUI and its members are committed to the prevention and elimination of bullying in schools and are proactively engaging with school...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... Does Mr. Ryan have any views on how it can be improved? Is it his experience that it in some way contributes to the "othering" of students or people feeling excluded? The ASTI and the TUI have raised very interesting points as proposals we can address. Could we get further comment from the witnesses from both unions? HSCLOs play such an important role in ensuring that not every...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Dr. David Duffy: My thanks to the Senator for the reference to the TUI submission. Suicide and suicidal ideation are incredibly serious. NEPS and CAMHS are agencies on which schools rely very heavily if a student is in a crisis. A report published in 2018 by an Oireachtas committee found that NEPS was significantly understaffed, while a study published by the Department of Education in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Good, I thank Mr. Ryan. To the INTO and TUI, how can we introduce a higher value on social and emotional intelligence? The whole curriculum is designed around stuffing in as much information as possible and vomiting it out on a paper for an exam. What is needed in schools to prioritise social and emotional intelligence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
...aspects, namely, social and emotional intelligence, the well-being programme in the junior cycle and the forthcoming senior cycle review from the NCCA, which is due to go to the Minister soon. The TUI, in its commentary on that report, believes that education should be respected in its widest sense. While it has a role in preparing for the labour market and for further and higher...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
...are a few aspects on discrimination. Sadly, it happens in society and schools are a microcosm of society, so sometimes it happens in schools. We need to address it every time it happens. The TUI has always argued that the teaching workforce has to be diverse. The longer period of teacher training that has been in place in recent years has in some ways created a greater difficulty in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)
Fiona O'Loughlin: ...displayed and demonstrated with enormous conviction that young people must play a key role in resolving this issue. That is not taking away from the engagement we have had with the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO. That has been very positive and we appreciate the input of both Mr. O'Sullivan and Mr. Duffy. I thank all of our members as well for their engagement.