Consent and pornography to be part of revamped sex education in junior cycle

Education Minister Norma Foley said she hoped that this draft would address that need and encourage students to “call out” inappropriate behaviour when they saw it.

Minister for Education Norma Foley has described a proposed revamp of Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) for the Junior Cycle as “a step in the right direction” and as the catalyst to empowering students to cope with life in the 21st century.

Ms Foley said that the current syllabus was 20 years old and children now live in a different world.