Brendan Ryan (Labour)

As a result of the publicity associated with the Stay Safe programme, a parents' meeting we held at the school was packed. The meeting scrutinised the programme in great detail and the overwhelming response of the largely female audience was that it was not nearly blunt, explicit or clear enough to satisfy parents. The idea that the introduction of the Stay Safe programme gave rise to a major parental backlash was a myth, albeit a successful one, created by mischief-makers. I invite the Minister to dig a little to ascertain the reason one in four schools has failed to adopt the programme. I may be wrong but I believe these schools are concentrated in certain dioceses.