Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Multilingualism in an EU Context: Discussion with Department of Education and Skills

1:45 pm

Photo of Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

That is true even in the Gaelscoileanna. My children go to all-Irish schools, where it is not just that the language is being taught, but that they are communicating in it every day, even in the hallways, during PE and so on. It is an active language within that environment and it stays with them beyond education.