Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

A total of 550 schools participated in that which was good value for money in that €2 million was the annual cost. There were hundreds of teachers involved across the country. It was efficiently introduced into primary schools in terms of complementing the existing curriculum. German was one of those languages, and the Taoiseach has scrapped it for the sake of making a saving of €2 million. The signal that sends out in terms of a Government addressing a core competitiveness issue-----

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