Covid-19 Pandemic
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-01
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

As the Minister knows, Sinn Féin supports keeping the virus out of schools and safely keeping them open. This necessarily means swiftly dealing with Covid-19 cases as soon as they arise within schools. It is good to know that there are school-specific contact teams, but we need more clarity on the criteria by which they will work. A lot of school staff and students have been in touch with me. They are concerned that they were not deemed close contacts though it seemed self-evident that they were. These people need peace of mind. What are the criteria for determining who is a close contact? Will these criteria be published? Are they being revised as part of the roll-out of school-specific tracing teams?

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Sitting date: 2020-12-01