Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a suite of organisations doing great work on this area and have been very engaged with the Department. I fundamentally agree with the Deputy that the more languages a student is given the opportunity to experience, statistics show they can perform very strongly from a linguistic perspective. That is the chief motivation behind bringing in a variety of modern foreign languages at primary school level. That had never been done before.