Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The judgment on that must be left to the experts and it is the experts who are attesting to that, namely, public health. These are not statistics or figures that I am producing. They are being produced by the experts on the ground. Public health takes a rigorous approach when it is called into schools. We also have enhanced school teams. Public health has confirmed that it has extended the level of testing in schools. The adjudication of those statistics is made by public health and no one else. That is right and proper given that we said from the outset that we would be led by public health on the measures that were required in the schools and what we would do to deal with Covid-19.