Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

National Council for Curriculum and Assessment: Discussion.

1:00 pm

Photo of Fidelma Healy EamesFidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A question has come to me in the course of the debate. Would the NCCA support measures to prevent the extinction of Latin as a subject in secondary schools, given the widespread known benefits of Latin to our language as a basis for other languages in terms of improving literacy, vocabulary and grammar?

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