Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Engagement with Trade Unions on Keeping Schools Open: Discussion

Mr. Kieran Christie:

It is difficult to get our heads around all of that. There is an enormous communication piece to be done on that. Communication has been very poor to school leaders who have to try to disseminate the message from public health to teachers, staff members, parents and students. There is an enormous of work to be done on that to make it clear that the same procedures in establishing who is a close contact are being applied in schools as they are in every other workplace setting.