Ms Kate Duggan:

It is important to say that two thirds of our budget covers the cost of placements across the agency. Where members of the Traveller community are in foster care or residential care, we do not break down the figures because we do not have ethnic data. In the context of all of the services that we provide, including family supports, social work and social care, we do not break that down because we do not have ethnic data. We spend about €4 million a year on Traveller-specific programmes that are similar to the programmes we just talked about, namely the bursary and employment schemes and educational support services. These are targeted towards the Traveller community. I cannot break down the figures without the ethnic data.