Mr. Paul Byrne:

We would hope for a central process and that the application would be made to the Department for the hand sanitisation equipment, which would then be delivered to schools.

We hope it would be a centralised system, bearing in mind that a lot of different hand sanitisation stations will be required. The recommendations suggest that we would have hand sanitisation stations at the entrance to each classroom. In the mornings, when there is a high volume of students, as in Mr. Mongey's example of 1,000 students going into a school, about ten to 12 hand sanitisation stations will probably be needed at each entrance into the school because it cannot be planned what time the buses will arrive. I know that in some rural schools, buses arrive as early as 8.15 a.m. because some buses do double runs. They do a post-primary school run first and then they do a primary school run. The other issue is that we will need to have a level of supervision in the mornings that we might not have had before, which will be an additional requirement on resources. We will have to create a new system for the students to enter the school in the morning. We will have to get them into a process whereby hand sanitisation becomes second nature to them as they come in. We hope the supply will be done centrally.