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

I apologise for interrupting. When you are around children - the Minister has been around more children than me because she has been teaching all of her life - you know that children of one, two and three years of age soak up languages like a sponge, in a way that even a ten-year-old cannot. It seems to me that we are wasting a huge opportunity by not introducing children in a very passive way to the Irish language through a huge State investment in preschool, childcare and so on. As I have said, we have a great deal of technology. People think technology is a threat, but I see it as an opportunity if we use it in a positive way. There is a great deal of technology, even for people who do not have Irish, to introduce Irish around the child at a very young age. It seems to me that when you can get two for the price of one-----