Gay Mitchell (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 100: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of hours being spent on Irish language education at primary and secondary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27561/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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At primary level, the recommended minimum time, excluding discretionary curriculum time for Irish as a second language is 3.5 hours per week or 2.5 hours per week where a short day is provided for the infant classes. At second level, the syllabi for senior cycle are designed around a recommended instruction time of 180 hours and those for the junior cycle 240 to 270 hours over the three years of the junior cycle.