Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My apologies but I cannot write as quickly as the Deputy can ask questions and I missed those questions earlier. On teacher training, we are still working with the Department of Education to determine exactly how we are going to address this issue. We have responsibility for third level in its entirety from a policy point of view but obviously the Department of Education has a very active interest in teachers. We are continuing to work our way through this and I imagine it will be an area of shared responsibility.

On the issue of an Irish-language teacher training college, I would be more than happy to look into that, engage with the Minister for Education on it and then revert to the Deputy directly.