Mr. Paul Rolston:

Can I add briefly to that? Regarding home schooling, particularly for post-primary students, one of the big problems we had was that we landed into this without any warning. We went from a situation where everything happened in school to, all of a sudden, one where nothing happened in school. Training is critical from that point of view. We must learn from the problems we have had. I refer to training for the students as to how they may do some study at home and how that might link with the schools, training for parents to help them understand, because they were simply thrown into the home schooling scenario without any assistance or understanding, as well as training for teachers from the point of view of how they can co-ordinate teaching within the classroom with assistants and perhaps assisted study or study at home. We are in a position where we have learned a lot about what is lacking. We have identified, through this crisis, the importance of the link between school and home and how those two must mingle and support each other. The problem is that everybody was thrown into this with no training whatsoever, at nobody's fault because this virus hit us like a tonne of bricks from nowhere. We now see the problems and we need to go about addressing them. People are talking about Covid-19 possibly being around for a couple of years, as Ms Fanning said. We have got to have ideas and develop structures and training around how we might manage these matters. The face of education, post-primary and tertiary, is changing hugely anyway so we do need to address those matters, I believe through training.