Maria Byrne (Fine Gael)
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This is more of a comment than anything. I served on the education and training board, ETB, with Mr. Ó hAiniféin. I welcome him and thank him for his informative speech. I know how passionate he is about Irish and the teaching of Irish and I know that he was instrumental in setting up a number of schools.

As Mr. Ó hAiniféin is aware, I am involved in an Irish-speaking school myself.

The resources, from iPads to the different learning experiences that are there now for the students, have certainly helped. I know that a number of people have come from English-speaking schools where they would not have had Irish as their first language and there are so many resources. Will COGG develop a model towards encouraging schools to use the specified resources? Mr. Ó hAiniféin spoke about the textbooks and whatever else, but will there be some sort of a suggested programme that schools should follow? There is so much interest in Irish speaking in schools now.