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:

I take a somewhat more neutral view on this than Mr. Boyle. Across the whole Covid issue, we have learned things in all aspects of our lives that will be brought forward into society long after Covid is put into the dust bin of history. Hopefully, that will be sooner rather than later. It might be the case that sanitisation will be more widespread based on public health advice and if that is the case then, that is the case and it will be right across society, schools and everywhere else.