Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed)

Photo of Norma FoleyNorma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Everything is being reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Regarding the private bus operators, I reiterate that our contract is with Bus Éireann, which may choose to subcontract where necessary. On our buses that cover the official school transport system, we are operating on the basis of the NPHET guidelines and rolling out measures for post-primary in respect of those guidelines. That is how we choose to operate. We are following the NPHET advice. As regards the private bus operators, with the best will in the world, private arrangements are not something in respect of which the Department of Education and Skills can intervene. That would be more the jurisdiction of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. We have to cater for those who are on the official bus routes with us.

I see the Chairman would like to come in on NEPS, etc.

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