Mr. Alan Mongey:

Significant supervision is required, and I will go back to the Irish weather. It is quite easy on bright sunny days when students are out on the playing fields, if one is lucky enough to have playing fields in one's school. However, on wet, windy, cold days when every student is squeezed into corridors and classrooms right around the school, social distancing will be significantly challenged. We need to look at what mitigation measures can be put in place in schools to assist in that regard to make sure the environment is safe and secure for students, teachers and staff.

That is why significant investment is required. Significant supervision is needed. The vast majority of students are well behaved and will follow the guidelines and ask what they should do, but teenagers are teenagers and young people are young people, and they continue to push the boundaries, even at home, not just in schools. A huge amount of support is going to be required in terms of supervision at lunchtime. That is just from a post-primary perspective. Perhaps primary schools might have an additional perspective on it.