Mr. John Boyle:

We are. We have a front-line person in our office who deals specifically with schools around Covid-19. We know that a small number of schools were closed on public health grounds. A lot of pods and classes are at home, which is regrettable but it is for everyone's safety.

In terms of the substitution issue, we know that there are individual classes where a lot of special education teachers are being asked to leave the special education children to give their time to the mainstream class because classes cannot be split.

There is a method of paying back that support to the children with special educational needs but we are not sure it will work because the hours are being banked. We do not know if there is going to be anybody there to pay that back to those children in the new year. That is very important because they lost enough during the lockdown.