Eoin Ó Broin: I've been
contacted and I presume
TDs from all parties
are being contacted
by a large number
of parents,
but also by teachers
and by
principals of schools
who are concerned
with the way in which
the school reopening
is happening.
I've been talking,
very much off the record,
to some teachers
and principals
who feel that
they're being left
making public
health decisions
without adequate
guidance
 from the
Department of Health.
We're seeing a
lack of coordination, 
for example, between the
Department of Transport,
the National
Transport Authority
and schools in terms of
school
transport provision.
So you've situations,
 and this is not just
in my own constituency,
where you could
have no social distancing
on school buses
to and from school,
you can have children
in school buses
for anything up to an hour,
 and yet then they're
socially distanced,
or attempting
to socially distance.
We have schools that
have cramped conditions.
We see today that
the Teachers' Unions
are saying
that there isn't
adequate PPE
across all schools.
So, while we want
the schools to re-open,
and we want them
to re-open in a way
that is safe for both
pupils and teachers.
