Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 12 February 2015
216. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked 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]
View answerThere 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, and Croatian which students from those EU countries can present for in the Leaving Certificate.
