Ms Rachel Mullen:

The Deputy asked about the Traveller liaison workers. There are five posts under the umbrella of the special initiative for Travellers. They were originally in the Department of Social Protection and they were moved into what was the Department of Justice and Equality, primarily because that Department had the brief relating to the national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy. However, it was not the right Department for that initiative. It was not the right home for it and it was not broad enough as an initiative. We are recommending a broader initiative to be housed in the Department of Social Protection which would be the most obvious place to situate an employment service initiative. It needs to be much better developed than what is currently within the former Department of Justice and Equality.