Ms Cliodhna O'Neill:

I will start and bring in my expert colleagues as we go along. I will hit off a couple of the Deputy's points. On the co-ordinators and link workers, we have the two co-ordinators in post relatively recently and the link workers are still being recruited. The plan is that those co-ordinators will co-ordinate in two parts of the country. I listed the areas where the link workers will be placed. The plan is that they will be rooted in the community and be a complement to the existing services.

They will work with the education welfare officers, home-school liaison officers, schools, Traveller and Roma community, youth organisations, etc. There will be a vital link in the system for children, young people, and their facilities. It is a new role. We have had some experience of that through the Supporting Travellers and Roma, STAR, programme and it is modelled on what we have seen working already. We will be iterating that to make sure it is most effective and we will be trialling different things in different areas as well to see what becomes most effective.