Ms Cliodhna O'Neill:

It is also important to mention the DEIS funding review. Ms Cullen is better placed to speak to that but we have invited the OECD to come in and examine the DEIS model of allocation, at how we allocate resources to DEIS schools. Following on from that, we will be looking at a new funding model for DEIS. We have schools such as the ones we are currently discussing that have additional home school liaison and we know the value of that. We are looking at the resource allocation model across DEIS because we have brought so many more schools into the DEIS programme. While this is not specific to the Traveller community, we have massively expanded the number of Traveller children benefiting from supports such as the school completion programme and HSCL because they are now in DEIS schools that were not previously DEIS schools.