Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The challenge is that we have to change society so people do not feel they have to hide their identity to avoid being hurt. Mr. McDonagh mentioned early intervention. Does he have statistics on Traveller participation in preschool education? I imagine the children of most so-called middle class families who go to college probably had at least one year of preschool education. Programmes such as Aistear and Síolta are in primary schools and preschool education and the quality can be very good. I am not sure whether many Traveller children have access to preschool. It means that when they go to school I imagine the majority of their classmates will have already had at least one free preschool year and now there is a second free year.