Dr. Alex Dowdall:

I might just quickly come back in. I may be just re-emphasising a point I made earlier. The approach to date has been about ensuring that Irish is embedding into the other strategic plans which our Department has. I have mentioned microcredentials. Something which I should have mentioned previously, although it warrants mentioning here, is regarding apprenticeship as well. One of the headline actions that is called out in the public service plan is to develop an apprenticeship programme for an Irish language stream aligned with the executive officer grade in the Civil Service. That is progressing. Colleagues in our own apprenticeship unit are working on that within the broader context of the public sector apprenticeship plan with colleagues in the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht. There is an expressed interest there to secure five places on an Irish-language stream within that apprenticeship programme. Again, it is another example of just how Irish is, and can be, embedded into the broader strategic priorities of our Department across different areas, whether it be skills or apprenticeship and so on.