Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 10 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Impact of Covid-19: Education – Return to School and School Transport (Resumed)

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

We thought it was very helpful to provide an update to the school community in June regarding plans towards school opening. It was an important issue to address. We were very dependent on the engagement with the health authorities in order that we could have the health advice available to us. We received that in late June and it was then published last week. We will be providing detailed guidance to the primary and post-primary sectors. We have already sent initial sets of guidance to the school principals in the primary sector and we will be updating that further as a result of the further dialogue. We are in dialogue about such guidance for the post-primary sector and we aim to have all of that material completed by the end of this month. As I set out in the opening statement, there is a wide range of issues to be covered in the guidance.

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