Dr. Frances O'Connell:

I agree with the Cathaoirleach. The benefit of some of the work we have done on PATH 3 that Dr. Bargary highlighted is we have clusters coming together and people working together. TUS will be part of two clusters in Ireland because of our geographic spread. At our midlands, east and north Dublin, MEND, cluster in Athlone, we work with Maynooth University, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Dublin City University, specifically looking at Traveller and Roma access to higher education. Again, it is about more permanent and substantial funding to allow us strategically work with multiple plans over a four- to five-year period and co-sharing models that will work across our geographic region. TUS has the highest number of registered Traveller and Roma students in the country. It is about that longer term task and cluster focus. The analysis work has been done as regards what we need. It is now about the joining up and the connectivity to do that, in addition to that more strategic approach and implementation focus rather than analysis focus.