Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)

In my area there are three or four Gaelscoileanna and a Gaelcholáiste. The parents are finding it difficult to match the education system and advance it through Irish. Is there a short-term solution, for example, grants to allow local communities to work through the education system to have Irish classes? In my area, successful Irish classes have been started in a small rural hall. We will lose momentum if we wait until December 2008. We will lose parents because they will become disillusioned about trying to apply the education system through Irish and feel they are getting lost. Are children losing out because of this? That is the most significant problem.

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