Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-08
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Sorca Clarke (SF), Longford-Westmeath

This morning, some parents in my constituency received the following message from their local school: "If someone in your household has Covid-19 and cannot isolate from others, your child would need to stay at home for 17 days even if they feel well and get a negative PCR test." This refers to something that public heath advisers and the HSE refer to as constant exposure or ongoing exposure, where there is one person in the house who tests positive but, for whatever reason, cannot isolate and does not have access to a dedicated bathroom, which creates this situation. I am going to put to the Taoiseach the questions these parents have been putting to me this morning. Will homeschooling be facilitated when situations like this arise? Given we have a seven-day average of 4,659 cases, it is safe to assume there are a number of children in this situation at this point in time.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-08