Ms Áine O'Keeffe:

It speaks to Senator Noonan's point. We had the STAR programmes under the first NTRIS, which ran from 2019 onwards. The learnings from those have now been brought forward into the Traveller and Roma education strategy. What we have done, working with the Department of Education and Youth, is scale all that learning and to build on what we understood as that great model where you have school, you have the TESS, home-school, SCP and DEIS, EWOs and then you have our connection with the Traveller and Roma communities through what are now the link workers. We are taking what was really powerful, worked well and was effective the first time around and scaling that not just to DEIS but more broadly across communities where there are Travellers who need to be knitted into that school community.