Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

We will be following public sector approaches in relation to staff who are unable to attend because they are at high risk. Full details on high-risk groups are available on the HSE website. There is further work being undertaken in the public sector with the HSE to refine that further and to put a system in place so that there is clarity on which small groups of staff are unable to attend the workplace due to this terrible virus.

In relation to substitution and teacher availability, one thing that was done last summer by a number of post-primary management bodies was an equivalent of Be on Call for Ireland to bring some post-primary teachers home when there were still vacancies arising in July. I think nearly 50 teachers came home from abroad and that was very helpful. We have initial anecdotal evidence that supply may be somewhat enhanced but we recognise, particularly in a post-primary context, there is a challenge. Those are among the issues we are working through with the management bodies and the unions.