Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to add the Polish language to the leaving certificate curriculum, in view of the fact that more persons here speak Polish than Arabic, Japanese, Russian or Hebrew which are on the curriculum. [6412/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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There are a range of languages, including foreign languages, available for the Leaving Certificate in our schools. In addition to English and Irish; Ancient Greek, Arabic, French, German, Hebrew Studies, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Russian are available.

There are also a suite of non-curricular EU languages such as Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Modern Greek, Finnish, Polish, Estonian, Slovakian, Swedish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Croatian which students from those EU countries can present for in the Leaving Certificate.