Mr. Páiric Clerkin:

Certainly, our organisation would always argue and advocate for the more vulnerable children and those who need the extra supports to ensure that we can ensure that they are looked after through our school system. Certainly, they would be a priority for all schools, for all school leaders and for our teachers now as we return and reopen our schools. We want to see that the resources are in place to ensure that we can plan for all of those challenges into the future and that we can implement those plans. We want the resourcing that will be required to be there to ensure we can do that. We acknowledge there is a challenge there. This was a focus for our schools and comprised a lot of the unheard work the schoolteachers were doing, whereby they kept in contact with those vulnerable children to keep them engaged with the school system to the very best of their ability. That is work we will have to prioritise when we go back in September. It is one of the challenges we face. One will find that every school leader and teacher will be most focused on ensuring that this happens successfully. We need the supports, however, and some of the flexibility I pointed out earlier on, to ensure that we can do so successfully.