Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The school authorities, the Department of Education and the Minister have been guided all along by public health advice. In respect of ventilation, there has been guidance issued to the schools advising that the first and most effective form of ventilation is fresh air. I take the Deputy's point that there can be caveats to that in certain conditions. The Minister is providing for technical advice to schools in terms of bespoke measures that might be required in certain school settings around ventilation and that resources will be provided also to facilitate certain bespoke solutions that might be required. Every school is different. About 35,000 CO2 monitors have been issued. I spoke to some teachers the other day. Some are saying to me that it is working in their schools but every school's situation can be different. We will continue to be responsive to measures that schools may require.

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