Dr. Kara McGann:

I thank the Deputy for the question. The short answer is I do not know of anybody who has specifically run a pilot or targeted programme for the Traveller community in employment. We have seen different sectors, after the previous economic crash, looking at specifically targeting people on the live register and trying pilot programmes that encourage people back to work. It is not beyond the realm of possibility. It is important that to set this up for success, we need to ensure awareness training is done, with strong and engaged cultures ready for this. The last thing we would need is more betrayal of trust in the community. It is something that employers should want to engage in again and again. The Deputy is right in that if we get this up and running successfully, the momentum would build and go from there. I do not know of any particular sector that has run such a pilot but, equally, I do not see why we could not look at something like that.