Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In view of the challenges posed to our society by Brexit and the executive actions of President Trump in his first couple of days as US President and in respect of the programme for Government, preparations for Brexit and the changes brought about by the Trump Presidency, will the Minister for Education and Skills agree to restore history to a full place in the curriculum of Irish schools so that today's students are not besieged by alt-right and alt-left material and alternative facts but that we go back to history and looking at what its lessons may teach us? In respect of our primary schools, could we see the development of language learning at primary level?

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