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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh and call Deputy Gannon.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: There is a difficulty with picking up the sound.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: That is no problem at all. I thank Ms Dempsey and Deputy Funchion. The next speaker is Deputy Shanahan.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I should make the point that this is the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. The sectoral committees will hopefully be up and running soon. I will not prevent Inclusion Ireland in any way from answering the question-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: Okay.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: That is fair enough.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: That is reasonable.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I spoke earlier to a representative of SNAs and asked him what his members were encountering. He spoke of a sense of relief because there had been a sense of isolation for many children, particularly those with special needs, during the lockdown and the following period of absence from school. Ms Dempsey also spoke of a similar feeling of isolation and abandonment that parents had. Would...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: On the point about society withdrawing from the whole family, there has recently been talk of new lockdowns and, on the part of some, there has almost been a celebration that lockdowns work. Others, of course, say they manifestly do not work and that, at the very best, they press pause. How does Ms Dempsey think those families she described would feel about new lockdowns, whether localised...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Ms Dempsey and all our witnesses for attending, answering our questions and presenting so eloquently. I will suspend the meeting until 4.30 p.m. as I am told there are to be votes in the Convention Centre.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I do not think so. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Foley, will join us when we resume.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I welcome the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Foley, who is in committee room 2. She is welcome back to the Covid-19 committee in a different capacity. I thank the Minister and her officials whom she will introduce in her opening statement for attending. I ask her to limit her opening statement to five minutes to allow as much time as possible for questions and answers.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister and ask her to conclude.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: We have received the Minister's statement and it has been circulated in advance. I want to give Deputies time to ask questions which, it is to be hoped, can be answered. The first speaker is from Sinn Féin, Deputy Ó Laoghaire.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Deputy. I ask the Minister to answer very briefly and succinctly.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Deputy and the Minister. If there is any additional part of the Deputy's questions-----
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: -----to which the Minister wishes to respond, she might reply to him in writing before the end of the week.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank the Minister. The next speaker is Deputy Murnane O'Connor.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith. The next speaker is Deputy Gannon.