Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----that there is a community responsibility in making our schools safe. It is hugely important we recognise that if the community wishes for our schools to stay open in the long term, the community must accept responsibility for supporting schools and the good work they do.

We have had a number of engagements with the Department of Health and the HSE and, just some time ago, a high-level engagement where we raised the issue of priority testing. Priority testing will be provided where there is an outbreak in a school. Schools will be treated no differently from other environments where priority testing is being provided where a situation of that nature occurs.