Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

All sorts of languages are now in vogue which is great and fantastic. However, does it surprise Mr. Byrne that people who can start to comprehend and learn languages from continental Europe or China or Japan in secondary school - we must remember they are not done in primary school - still cannot learn Irish? What does that say? Irish is not that difficult of a language.