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Dail Éireann — 2024-10-24
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

I cannot speak our national language with the Deputy's sense of competence, to my shame. When we designed the little book bag programme, which is part of the little libraries initiative, whereby a bag of books was given to each child, in the English-language bag there was at least one Irish-language book. There were also bags with solely Irish-language books. They supported domestic Irish authors and producers of books. We have been very cognisant of the need to support the Irish language. One thing that was seen previously was that there was not a whole lot of Irish-language books for young people. We have been cognisant of that and have included such books in our little book bag programme.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-24