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Search By Live95 News Team via Getty Images Delegates at the three teachers union conferences are set to vote on whether to ballot their members for industrial action.
It s after the government changed the vaccine plan last week removing them as a priority category.
Following advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Council, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly revealed a new plan for the vaccine drive against Covid-19 last Tuesday.
After the medically vulnerable are inoculated, vaccine doses are now to be prioritised by age only.
It came as a shock to teachers who had been expecting all school staff to be among the first third of the population to receive a dose.
Mr Harris said he would work with the unions to chart a safe way for further and higher education institutions to safely reopen for on-site attendance, including a number of rapid Covid-19 testing pilots.
âThis should never risk the health of staff or students but recognise that from a mental health and wellbeing, [there is] a shared desire to move to a much better place,â he said.
The Minister said that there was a need for a fully integrated third-level sector in the State. âPeople have been pointing this out for decades but it remains undone. This means we have yet to reach our full potential. It has allowed a points race to get out of control and placed appalling levels of pressure and stress on young people in our country.
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