Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Special Needs Education: Impact of Covid-19
Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witnesses. This is my second Covid session today. The first this morning concerned contact tracing and testing. Professor Mallon from UCD gave quite an interesting but worrying presentation in which he talked about the expectation of a second wave of the virus at some point in the autumn. Should such a scenario arise, what lessons would the Department of Education and Skills apply that would be different from what happened in March? What do the witnesses expect the Department to learn and apply to their special needs students should that situation arise in some schools, either regionally or on a county basis, or if even a mass lockdown has to happen again? What lessons should we learn and how should we apply them?
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