Ms Breda Naughton:

Students have opportunities to study abroad under the Erasmus programme. Young people can work as language assistants in other countries. The son of one of my friends is in France preparing to become a language assistant. The European Union is making a great effort to provide additional funding. Funds have been increased by 70% to try to get more young people to spend part of their time in third level education in another country. I will ask Mr. Caffrey to speak about the teaching of German.