Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Níl ach cúpla focal Gaeilge briste agam. The wider question, and I have always asked this question, is how we have so many children going through schools here at national and second level who still do not have fluent Gaeilge at the end of 13 or 14 years of education. We need to examine that.

Today's session is very useful and timely. It is timely in the sense that we discussed New Decade, New Approach in the Dáil last week and there was consensus across what needs to be done in terms of the implementation of the outstanding elements of that. It is very important to have the cross-party agreement on that. The asks here today are extremely clear, and I think everybody listening to this will understand the urgency of having those asks implemented as quickly as possible. Certainly, for my part and that of my party, we will do everything we can from this House to ensure, given we are co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement and Acht na Gaeilge is the cornerstone of the St. Andrew's Agreement and the New Decade, New Approach agreement, that the obligations are implemented. This committee can play a key role and I look forward to working on that basis.