Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The legislation does not currently allow for the setting up of another ETB. I can pre-empt what the Deputy will say next, but he might appreciate that I am just giving him the information on the situation at present. Education and Training Boards Ireland, ETBI, would say that it has an education policy and development officer who has specific responsibility for Irish-medium education in ETB schools. That officer has been instrumental in offering targeted supports to the directors of schools and school leaders who are doing the work as Gaeilge and know what needs to be done. That is where the legislation and the ETBI stand at present. There is an officer in place who is supporting the delivery of Irish in Irish-medium schools.