Ms Gr?inne Cullen:

That is absolutely the case.

The Tusla education service reviews the school completion programme. It follows up on what has been learned and brings it back into the very comprehensive training programme it has for all its co-ordinators and workers across the system.

The DEIS review will look at activities that work well with children. We are currently undertaking a major review of the DEIS programme and the consultation process as well. The work Ms Waterhouse has been doing on the consultations on the Traveller and Roma strategy itself is gathering a lot of information. It is getting really good examples of what works well. We particularly looked for schools where Traveller and Roma children were actually staying in school longer, move into the junior certificate cycle and on into the leaving certificate cycle. We can use the information from those schools to develop our consultation processes for the NTRIS. A lot of the rich material we are getting back in will feed into the actions around the strategy.