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World Progress · 2025

Ireland

MedicalUnder reviewSchoolsCSE in schools

Ireland’s health service is writing a new model of care. Schools must teach comprehensive sex education.

Official sources

What the law allows

Medical care for minorsUnder review

Under review: the HSE is producing a new Model of Care and reviewing the evidence.

HSE

Schools — curriculumCSE in schools

Comprehensive sex education (CSE) in schools under the Junior Cycle SPHE specification (2023).

Curriculum Online — Senior Cycle SPHE (2024)

Key dates2025

2025: Under review: the HSE is producing a new Model of Care and reviewing the evidence.

HSE

Sources

Full record

The Health Service Executive is writing a Model of Care for Gender Healthcare — a clinical framework for how services will be delivered. As of 2026 that model has not been published as a finished restriction. Irish children have been referred abroad for assessment.

A doctors’ complaint to HIQA, and later court leave to challenge how that complaint was handled, sits with the regulator and the courts. The HSE has not published a restriction. The Oireachtas has not passed a statute. Ireland is under review.

Schools. NCCA Senior Cycle SPHE (specification 2024) is a mandatory component with a Relationships and Sexuality strand. Junior Cycle SPHE was updated for first years from September 2023.

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