Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister confirm to me tonight that in no way could we wind up in a situation whereby there would be two curricula for Irish, with one being much more difficult and challenging than the other; that the marks for both curricula will be the same; and that this would also count for the same for the points for CAO entrance? While I know that is not directly the Minister’s responsibility, presumably there is co-ordination between the Minister and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. This would avoid a total farce of a situation whereby there are two curricula that are totally different, with one being harder than the other and there being no advantage to doing the hard curriculum. Who would bother doing it, under those circumstances? Certainly, I would not have encouraged my children to do it when they were doing the leaving certificate, even though Irish was our home language.

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