Mr. Peter Boylan:

I thank the committee for inviting us and allowing us to put our case forward. As mentioned earlier, we are very open to any suggestion as to what we have to do in our classes in order to be able to run them as safely as possible. When Covid and all the restrictions came in and we were on level 2, we had very strict guidelines in our classes and organisations, with pods of five. I do not think any school allows any parents near the school building because of the potential for the spread of Covid. There is no carpooling. They all have to come in at the same time but spread out 2 m apart. We do not even allow queueing to get into a class. We have a tracking system we have created, hand hygiene measures and ongoing liaison with our insurance company. Any time there is a change of level, our insurance company informs us immediately that night so no teacher will break the rules and everyone will comply with the restrictions in place. If there is anything else we need to do, we just want to be told and we will abide by it.