Ms Gráinne Cullen:

We must work with what we have in terms of the geographic areas and the numbers for which we have funding. There will be a spread in terms of the work of the link worker. As link workers are based in the school completion programme, they work within a team of people, with a co-ordinator and other project workers who are focused on all of the school community. Link workers' work is to make sure that Traveller and Roma children engage with the school completion programme activity and to engage with the families to ensure understanding and communication of that. It is not that they are doing a whole separate activity. It is actually that engagement and trying to get children better linked into what is already on the ground.