Ms Sandra Tuohy:

We recently developed the reopening guidance for day care centres, along with our colleagues in infection prevention and control. We have expertise on that. It is quite complicated to reopen our day centres because many people who attend them are also depended on transport to get them there. We cannot have six or eight people in a bus being transported from their homes to day centres. We are examining how we might mitigate against that.

I wish to provide the House and Deputy with an assurance that those people who are not receiving day centre support are having alternative services delivered to them in their homes, such as meals on wheels and telephone support from people who provide services to them in day centres. We are committed to reopening our day centres, but we want to do that safely and mitigate against the risk of the transmission of the virus to a really vulnerable group.