As the Deputy knows, I have been very active in this regard. It is one of the issues on which I made a public statement here in the Dáil within a month of coming to office and my Government colleagues, as the question intimates, have been very active in that regard. A very successful seminar was held about a month ago which the NCEA convened and all the various interests attended. Following on that I met with Mr. Howard Jones informally when he was here at a dinner and we had a very full discussion on the real need for Ireland to be included positively in any initiatives which will be taken for language diversification.
With regard to the survey which Deputy Hussey has mentioned, I would question one of its findings because our indications are that we are not bottom of the league and that the take-up of European languages by English students is much lower. That is by the way and does not excuse the fact that we have a great amount of work to do in this regard. I hope that the business, economic and financial climate, the general European trend towards the very open statement of the needs of countries to participate in language diversification programmes, the steps which we have taken and the forthright statements which I have made in this regard will lead us to prepare proposals. I intend to give that matter my very close attention. My objective would be that come September 1988 and subsequent Septembers there would be more young people in this country taking up European languages other than French.