Dr. Tony Holohan:

There are a range of measures in schools and we recommended that those measures would continue and allow us the period of February to give further monitoring to those. We have a meeting due on the 17th and we expect to give further advice. We wanted to allow a period of time to have every child in the school system offered the opportunity to be vaccinated and to monitor what the trends in the disease were over that time period.

We expect to give further advice on all of the measures that are currently in place in schools arising from that meeting on 17 February.