Irish Language
Dail Éireann — 2022-09-29
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Pádraig O'Sullivan (FF), Cork North-Central

I would appreciate that. As I said, the naíonraí do brilliant work, like most of our childcare providers. Given they have extra requirements, however, including ensuring their staff are qualified and competent in teaching Irish and instructing in Irish, might an extra increment be applied to their capitation or can anything else be done in this regard? This is something we must examine to ensure we can manage to nurture and foster this positive outlook among people seeking to acquire Irish at a young age. I questioned that childcare provider and, to my knowledge, no funding is being received specifically to allow staff to go and improve their own language skills. They are dealing with children. Therefore, I encourage the Minister of State to talk to the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to determine if this is something that can be explored.

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Sitting date: 2022-09-29