Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that there are up to 50,000 Romanian citizens living here, many of them children of school age, she will instruct her Department to include Romanian as a language on her Department's website along with the six already available. [24600/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy is aware, my Department has translated and made available on its website documents in Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Spanish, German and Russian. The information translated is aimed at assisting parents of school going children and the languages currently provided were identified, based on available data, as meeting the greatest need.

The final element of this project has involved the compilation of a list of 'Frequently Asked Questions' for parents of children of primary school going age. This is now being translated in to the six languages listed above and will be published on my Department's website, along with the Irish and English versions. Once this is completed, my Department will evaluate the need for the provision of information in additional languages, including Romanian.