Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-05
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I thank the Deputy. I am familiar with this issue and I am aware of a constituent of mine who is in a similar position. I will speak to the Minister for Education about it again. What we would like to do, if possible, is to set up some sort of mechanism by which they could join the classroom from home, if that makes any sense. There would be a camera in the classroom and they could join the classroom electronically from home.
At the same time, we need to balance that against the genuine benefits children gain from going to school and being able to socialise and mix with other children, which have to be taken into account as well. I will speak to the Minister about it.

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