Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)

I welcome our guests and thank them for their painstaking detail and responses. Inevitably, there will be a level of repetition. There are similar themes all the time. It is important that every one of us explores the issues fully.

If our guests do not mind, I will ask my few questions one by one and get their responses one by one rather than ask them all together. Returning to early childhood education, it is wonderful. Beside me at home, we have a lovely crèche or Montessori, whatever the terminology is. It is well run and lovely and there is mass participation. It is a great thing. What data do the witnesses have on Traveller participation in those? There are also the local resource centres, which would provide it in some instances. Perhaps the witnesses could revert to early childhood education for a moment.