Ms Bernie McNally:

The home-school liaison is a really important to service. I think we have about 528 of them across 600 schools around the country. They are increasingly important with some of the problems young people are experiencing with well-being and so on. That part of the Tusla service is now under our Minister. We engage with it very regularly on the home-school community liaison, the school completions programme and the educational welfare officer service which I mentioned to one of the Deputies earlier. We have very regular engagement with it. As the Deputy knows, we are looking further at DEIS at the moment. The OECD is finalising a review with its recommendations on the future of DEIS and home-school community liaison will feature there. It is also very important with the Traveller community enrolment. We have funded some extra HSCLs on that.