Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Ms Foley said it will be back to school, as normal, for the entire school community at the end of the summer.
ASTI President Deirdre MacDonald said she is not confident that the plans to reopen schools can be implemented in a month's time. Ms Foley said pilot substitute panels, which have proven very successful, will be rolled out nationally and this will mean teachers being shared among a very limited number of schools.
In addtion there are over 2,000 post-primary teachers who are registered to teach but for a variety of reasons are not teaching and this will also be a valuable resource.Minister Foley said the size of the challenge was not underestimated at any stage and that the €370m fund is an acknowledgement and endorsement of the significance of the sector.Latest coronavirus stories
She said schools will be a very different place in September and that principals and deputy principals have "a mighty task ahead of them".
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.