Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Irish Language Education: Discussion

10:00 am

Dr. Tony Gaynor:

In regard to the issue raised by Deputy Byrne regarding transparency, we are working on a new school admissions Bill, which will tackle issues like that and ensure there is consistency across school admissions policies.

The reason behind the co-location of COGG and the NCCA, in answer to Deputy Ó Cuív, is that there are synergies between the roles of the two organisations. A curriculum can now be developed by the NCCA at the same time as resources are being developed by COGG. The intention was that if the NCCA could help COGG with some of the -----