Ms Áine Lynch:

In the survey by the National Parents Council, 120 parents said they did not get any information before their child started back. Other parents felt the information came too late. Information may have been provided to parents a day or two or on the evening before a school reopened and they may not have managed to work with their children on that information and get them to understand what was going to happen. They found it was too late to do that work properly with their child before school started.