Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

4:30 pm

Photo of Imelda MunsterImelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If I may, Chairman, I want to quickly raise another issue. The media has reported this week all about the complete hames that was made of the Covid-19 contact tracing system. I have heard reports in the past week or so of schools that were asked to conduct tracing themselves, with staff and principals having to spend hours and days tracking down close contacts. What is the Department's position on this?

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