Mr. David Duffy:

Mr. MacGabhann has basically said most of what I was going to say so I can be very brief. There are about 730 post-primary schools in the country. About 30 of those are in Gaeltacht regions and another 30 are not in Gaeltacht regions but teach through the Irish language or teach most of their subjects through the Irish language. They are the ones that tend to be referred to colloquially, as Ms Loughnane said, as T1 schools. It is not an official terminology but it is important whether a school is perceived as T1 or T2 because the Gaeltacht language strategy requires Gaelcholáistí and Gaeltacht schools to provide the T1 programme. As Mr. MacGabhann said, that does not mean other schools cannot do that but those are the schools that are required to provide the programme. That does not necessarily mean the students will take the exam in it. That becomes a student level decision at the point the exams are taken. The expectation is that the T1 programme would be more common in the Gaelcholáistí and Gaeltacht schools.