Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. However, I have been contacted by caretakers who are on the caretaker's grant and are now on a reduced Covid payment or unable to access a Covid payment. We must consider the precarious nature of the employment of some of those caretakers because they often have additional employment which is no longer available to them.

I will move to the issue of technology. While other countries had a national digital learning platform which was able to be deployed during the lockdown, that was not available to us. I can understand that might not have been possible. Is the Department planning for such a platform for any possible future lockdown or local lockdowns which may apply, because it is something that was absent, and that did not help in the education process?