Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 19: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has written to all post-primary schools to ascertain the precise number of schools offering the stay safe programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19857/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the 'Stay Safe' Programme operates in primary schools and not post-primary schools, I am presuming that the Deputy is referring to operation of 'Stay Safe' at primary level.

A questionnaire has issued to all primary schools asking if they are offering the Stay Safe programme. It also includes a needs analysis to ascertain if schools feel that they could benefit from further training being made available in respect of the Programme on top of all the training that has been provided to date. The questionnaire is short and the deadline given for returning it to my Department is within the next few weeks so that the information given in it will be available as soon as possible.