Mr. Dalton Tattan:

Yes, we are. We have had very extensive engagement, particularly over the past few weeks, with the Department of Health, through the office of the Chief Medical Officer, and also with the HPSC, which provides the detailed technical guidance to the HSE that ultimately gets issued.

There is some very helpful work being done there which will help inform us on general things such as hygiene, distancing, school transport and specifically issues relating to special education. Within that there is an acknowledgement and acceptance that at times for those with children who are quite young or children with certain disabilities the distancing is not always either proper or appropriate and is not really possible. If they are going to be supported appropriately, the distancing we have all become familiar with in everyday life will simply not work in those school situations.