Mr. Darran Heaney:

I thank the Chairman. On the involvement of the principals' and parents' associations, there is a commitment at the very start when schools register for the programme that they will deliver it, set up a committee and follow through with the resources and delivery. We also provide information for the principals to share with their boards of management about the school's participation in the programme. To clarify the numbers there, 30 of those schools were primary and we are in our first year of piloting the resources with primary. We wanted, therefore, to take a phased approach to double-check the resources were appropriate and that they worked and that how we were tackling it was appropriate. On the other schools which were post-primary, I reiterate what Professor O'Higgins Norman has just said on the regions. That is the way to broaden our reach across the whole country, including getting schools to work in clusters. The whole aim of the programme is to connect schools, parents and teachers but also to empower the schools to be able to meet what is set out in the policy, national action plan and procedures. It is therefore about providing them with support, resources and a toolkit to try to do that. Covid has been particularly good in the sense that we now have a lot of online options for training which has given us a broader reach across the country, which has been very helpful.