Ms Teresa Heeney:

We continue to raise it at the advisory group on reopening. Another meeting of that advisory group is convened for tomorrow. We have been meeting with the Department on a weekly basis. My colleagues here attend those meetings as well. These meetings involve planning for the reopening. The first phase of that is the reopening which is happening next Monday. We are very keen to begin conversations about what will happen in September and we will certainly be tabling again the issue of children with additional needs. Many members of ECI have expressed that they would very much welcome an opportunity to re-engage with those children because they have a very close relationship with them and their families and they know those children may need a little bit of extra support before going to school, for example, in September.