QUICK buck merchants are out to cash in on confusion in schools by selling air filtration systems unable to prevent Covid-19 spreading in the classroom, a leading industry expert has claimed.

Schools are being bombarded with offers from companies to install HEPA filters since the government made €62million in pandemic support funding available in December.

The Department of Education opted to let individual schools make their own decisions on clean air, but the principal of Loreto College in Swords, Co Dublin warned they have been thrown in the deep end.

Peter McNamara told the Irish Sun: “There’s an awful lot of investigations going on, emails flying around and the problem is we’re getting an awful lot of companies sending us in emails and fliers as well and it’s difficult to decide.

“Every principal wants to make their school as safe as possible. It does put pressure on, from what we can see, yes it would have suited if the Department came up with a spec and a device and did the procurement for us and supplied us with a number of devices they could stand over.

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