Mr. Kieran Christie:

Like our colleagues in the INTO, we will, to some extent, wait and see how Covid-19 leave transpires, both nationally and for individual members. Returning to the point concerning vulnerable workers - teachers in our case - we welcome the appeal mechanism regarding teachers in the high-risk category who feel they should be in the very high-risk category, in which case they would work remotely. However, in respect of the review of the categorisation of high risk and the illnesses that fall within that category, we are hearing from our members that their medical professionals are telling them that the list of illnesses in the high-risk category is far too broad and certain conditions should not be on that list but on the very high-risk list. This is the big difficulty we have with that whole issue.