Dr. Ronan Glynn:

That does not mean there will not be cases. That does not mean there will not be clusters and that we will not have issues over the coming weeks. However, after six months of children having no schooling and all the societal, social, mental and well-being impacts that has had on them, weighing that up against our experience with children in Ireland to date, the experience internationally where schools have reopened, all the measures schools in Ireland have put in place to protect our children, the work that teachers and principals have done around the country, and the ability of parents individually to make choices and to act responsibly over the coming months, we are fully supportive of our education system fully reopening at this point.