It is expected that all students will return to their classes over the course of March
An update on the situation with this year's Leaving Certificate is also expected on Tuesday.
It is understood that students with additional needs and Leaving Certificate students will be the top priority in any return to school. After that, at primary level, priority is likely to be given to younger children for whom remote learning is difficult.stressed that those with additional needs will need to be brought back in first.
"It does have to be done by agreement, but we are very keen to start with children with additional needs, they need their education and some of them are regressing now which is very worrying." He also said the government did not want to open the schools in"one big bang" but rather a phased basis because new variants of Covid-19 had proved to be more transmissible.🎧 LISTEN: Eimear and Fergus are joined by Tomás O'Leary to look back on Ireland vs. France, and we've a great Ronan O'Gara interview too