Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 October 2016
185. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expand the ISL programme in secondary schools currently available to those in the junior cycle to encourage an increase in the take-up of the use of Irish Sign Language. [28512/16]
View answerIrish Sign Language (ISL) has recently been introduced as a short course for Junior Cycle on a pilot basis. My Department will monitor the demand for and take-up of this course in Junior Cycle. There are no plans at present to expand ISL into the Leaving Certificate Established programme. However, there are four modules on Sign Language available as part of the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme. The syllabus is available at http://www.pdst.ie/sites/default/files/Sign%20Language.pdf.
