Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to extend or mainstream the pilot project for modern languages in primary schools which was launched in 1997; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10730/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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It has been decided, in the current year, to extend participation in the Modern Languages Initiative referred to by the Deputy to approximately 70 primary schools that were on the waiting list for inclusion in the Initiative, and that have staff members with relevant expertise in modern languages having completed one of the special courses in this area provided by the Institutes of Technology.

There are no plans at present for any further extension of the Initiative.