Ms Gráinne Cullen:

Not at all. There is a long list of them, so I will not go through it again, but just for reference, they are there. What we did is we looked at the Traveller enrolment.

The other thing to remember - sometimes when I get caught up looking at this stuff, I wonder why we are not further along - is that the ethnic identifier for Travellers is quite new within the system, so even just being able to track where the children and young people are and are not is something we are building all the time. Regarding the school returns this coming October, it will force a consent or non-consent with regard to one’s ethnicity, including Traveller ethnicity. More information may come through that. When we look at the numbers enrolled and the overall population, we are not that far off. Travellers are 0.65% of the total population. Our enrolment at primary is 1.6%, which is kind of strange. We obviously have problems with the overall data. The enrolment in post-primary is at 0.8%. Therefore, we are there or thereabouts in respect of capturing the ethnicity. However, that data is still quite new and we are getting better at how we use it.

One thing to mention, if there is time, is we have a contract with the ESRI, which is looking at the monitoring and evaluation framework for all our work on educational disadvantage. That has a particular focus on how we measure the impact of what we are doing with the Traveller and Roma strategies within that. I hope that will bring more to the table as well.