Dr. Ronan Glynn:

I thank the Deputy. The guidance around the need for social distancing and the differential needs for social distancing by age group was produced a couple of months ago. I cannot speak to individual educational institutions but, in short, we understand and internationally it is recognised that, for younger children, social distancing is impracticable. That should not preclude younger kids going back to school. We expect and hope from a public health perspective that the vast majority of older children in national school and certainly all children in secondary school should maintain a distance of 1 m from one another.