Covid-19 Pandemic
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-01
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Richard O'Donoghue (IND), Limerick County

Can the Minister tell me who is responsible? Is it the principal, the teacher, the board of management or the chairperson? Does a teacher have to make these decisions? Ideally these children should be at school, but they are allowed to roam the streets without supervision during the day. Nobody wants that. I understand that a person must fill out a Covid-19 passenger locator form before entering the country. I am aware of a case where more than 50 passengers returned to the country from a wedding in Spain, taking a flight to the UK and a ferry from there. Members of many of these families were attending schools. How are the regulations enforced? Are schools issued instructions for such cases? Who makes the decisions? I need answers to these questions. We should issue guidelines to let schools know who should make these decisions.

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Sitting date: 2020-12-01