Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My final question for the Department is the point I raised previously, which is that in any arena we need to look at international best practice. Obviously, other jurisdictions are different and there are probably limits on the comparators we have in the cases of the majority language and minority language dynamic. Having said that, a child is the same in every country, as is their ability. When the new circular was drafted, where did we look to and what is the international best practice which the Department would have worked off to come up with the 2019 circular, or any circular?