Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed)

Mr. Dalton Tattan:

It is hard to plan for it at the moment but, again, we have had this engagement with the HPSC, and part of the advice it is giving us concerns school transport. Our focus in getting the advice has been primarily on being ready for the summer provision next week and being able to give guidance to schools. There is help in that too in terms of our planning towards the autumn. We are hopeful about the guidance on public transport, and there are moves afoot more generally in that regard, so changes are happening there too and we will be able to draw on them. This underlines the point I made earlier about the guidance coming in a timely way - not so early that things radically change before schools reopen but with still enough time for schools to plan for it.

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