Ms Áine Lynch:

In terms of the question around whether schools close or classes cease and income support, when schools closed in March it happened overnight and we were trying to catch up to the crisis all the time. Thought now needs to be given at the income level if parents need to take time off work, but also at the education level. We need to plan for when classes cease or schools close for periods of two weeks and how we are going to support children and families during that time. We now have a planning period to do that.