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243 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Education the percentage of primary schools in County Sligo offering a foreign language to its pupils; and if he has any plans to encourage or facilitate other primary schools to develop foreign language teaching.
244 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Education the percentage of primary schools in County Leitrim offering a foreign language to its pupils; and if he has any plans to encourage or facilitate other primary schools to develop foreign language teaching.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 243 and 244 together.
As the prescribed curriculum for national schools does not contain provision for a language other than Irish and English, statistics as requested by the Deputy in relation to counties Leitrim and Sligo are not available to my Department.
I outlined the position in relation to the question of a European language on the curriculum of the primary school in my reply of 3 December 1991 to Questions Nos. 13, 75, 79 and 279.
