Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the comments made by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. As my colleague, Deputy Funchion, has said, at the Covid committee last Friday week a roadmap was discussed and August was mentioned but there was no specific date and it was very general and vague. September and possibly next year were mentioned and this was quite concerning. People are frustrated. Many parents have told me they see this as an essential service and that there should have been plans much earlier for reopening it. We are speaking about opening our schools, which is very important. They are all being rolled out together and there will be as full a reopening as possible. Everything should now be done to ensure a full reopening of services and put the extra funding into making sure there is extra space and the safety of everybody involved.

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