Ms Áine Lynch:

From the point of view of the National Parents Council Primary the emphasis should be on getting all children back to school at the start of the school year. If that requires resources to adapt buildings or hot water to get those children back, then that needs to be done. We should not have any situation whereby children are unable to return to school because an adaptation to a building was needed to allow that to happen. That being said, we cannot rebuild schools over the summer either. That must be managed in a way that is feasible over the period and that will support the return of all children back into primary schools.