Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)

I thank the Minister for his reply and look forward to the presentation of the paper. Does the Minister agree it is vital that children learn to speak Irish as early as possible and use it as widely as possible? Does he agree that a major difficulty for children can be the first letter of various words, because of aspirations, eclipses and prefixes? For example, Éire become tír na hÉireann. Does the Minister agree that any obstacles confronting children using the language must be addressed and that appropriate changes, where deemed necessary in the sense of assisting children in learning the language at that early stage, should be quickly introduced?

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