The Education Minister's rejected claims adequate resources have not been provided to ensure testing and tracing could cope with the pressures of schools reopening.
Thousands of school children are restricting movements after being deemed close contacts.
Minister Norma Foley does not believe schools have been let down by the Department of Education:
"I don't accept that I think we have resourced our schools incredibly, 650 million of resources going into our schools providing a variety of prevention infection control measures and that's everything know from enhanced PPE , and substitution, and all of the things that were needed."
