Mr. John Boyle:

On the third question, it will be a matter for the next set of stakeholder meetings to try to organise a plan B for instances where towns, villages or schools might be closed. We do not have a distance learning programme. While we do not want to go back to such a scenario, the reality is that we probably will have to in some circumstances.

There are 101 panels. The roadmap suggested that there would be 58. We continued to chip away for the past four weeks and we got the number up to 101. Places such as Clifden, where there are many small schools, were added this week, as were Gweedore and other Gaeltacht areas. The large urban areas are where the greatest pressure points exist. More than 2,000 schools will be covered by the supply panels. Obviously, we would wish that every school was covered, including the island schools, of which there are at least two on the supply panels. It is a good starting point relative to where we were, but we still have a bit of work to do there.

Perhaps some of the other witnesses would like to answer the Deputy's other question.