The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has said he personally believes there would be health and wellbeing benefits to getting children back to school, even in a partial capacity.
He said there may be a need to focus on exam students or on students with special needs. Mr Harris said he would love to see schools come back and government would have a number of options to consider if it got to a point where that option could safely be implemented.
But he stressed this would only happen if the National Public Health Emergency (NPHET) team deemed it safe to do so. Dr Cillian de Gascún, the head of the National Virus Reference Laboratory and chair of the expert advisory group on the coronavirus, said the idea of schooling one day a week would