Ms Jean O'Mahony:

I think the point about the modules available to students to do part of their course through Irish is a really important one. If you look at the CAO for this year, you can see that there is demand for courses that clearly offer an Irish-language component. I anticipate that the third level sector would understandably need support to develop curriculum material through Irish. That is one of the aspects I had in mind when I referenced that the HEA is engaged with Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge on a potential piece of research to look at demand in the third level sector. I would anticipate that this is one of the enablers that could potentially come out of that, such as how third level institutions need to be supported to deliver modules through Irish.