Ms Gráinne Cullen:

I think Mary Immaculate College and Trinity College do that one. There are really good examples of where Traveller history and culture is looked at in the curriculum for initial teacher education, ITE, for student teachers.

The second layer is teacher professional learning. Throughout the consultations, we constantly heard calls for the development of a resource for teachers. At NTRIS level, it is a resource that would probably be used widely by any person working with the Traveller and Roma communities. This year, we have negotiated with our support service, which is called Oide. I do now know if the Senator is familiar with the education support services but they all came together under one body, Oide, recently. It develops the curriculum for those continuing professional development, CPD, pieces and builds on all the resources that are already in the system. A lot of work has been done at University College Cork and there is work being done in the University of Galway. There is a myriad of materials.

Oide will pull those together and we will develop out that as a resource and offering for our teacher professional learning. I am delighted personally about that because it could make a huge difference in our system to the culture in our schools and so on. They are the two big pieces and, as Ms O'Neill said, it is around diversity and inclusion within the curriculum in our schools.