Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect to the Deputy, the expertise that rests with public health means that we accept the adjudication of public health. That is what we do in every environment and I expect that that would be the same in the school environment. I reiterate that at no stage did any principal or member of school management wish to have the burden of making a public health adjudication placed upon them. For that reason, it is public health making the adjudication and no-one else within the school environment. That is practised everywhere so it is practised in schools.