Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Ó hAiniféin for his presentation. The part of the presentation I am most interested in is where it says there are also functions on the teaching of Irish in the country's other schools. I would like to have a little more information on how Mr. Ó hAiniféin's role interacts with those schools whose students generally tend to have a poor level of Irish leaving school. It is something that I have annoyed people about in the past by talking about the poor level of the teaching of Irish within the schools, especially at secondary level. For me, Irish then becomes something that certain groups and minority groups see as a barrier to the teaching profession etc. instead of wanting to speak it. We have to go back then to how it is taught in primary and second level in non-Gaelscoileanna and I wonder how we can transform that. What do we need to do to make sure that we can have teachers in schools who are passionate about the Irish language and who are finding ways to integrate it, not only in that compulsory one hour per day but also into other parts of the day, even in English-speaking schools, and making something more enjoyable? I know that for someone such as me, I am petrified every time I try to learn Irish because of the experience I had in school, mostly in schools that had poor resources. It left me afraid of the language that I so want to speak. How do we begin to address that in the country's other schools that are mentioned in the submission?