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:
The Acting Chairman has highlighted a very important issue that has been part of our stakeholder engagement. It is about the engagement by schools with their local community. We will make it form part of our guidelines that there is a need, in planning for how the schools address Covid and any arrangements that they put in place, for them to have a means of dialogue with their local community. The example given by the Acting Chairman clearly shows why it is very important that schools reopen as it will enable people to return to work but it has to be done in a way that does not diminish that return.
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