Plans to get all children back to school full-time in late August or September are "a surprise", according to the General Secretary of one of Ireland's secondary school teachers unions.
Yesterday Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that the Government aims to work on "bespoke solutions" to ensure all children can return to schools.
Speaking after a Cabinet briefing, Mr Varadkar said: "We're going to come up with a solution that allows all kids to return to school at the end of August, early September as originally indicated." Minister for Education Joe McHugh said he did not want to envisage a situation where we continue to leave children behind.