Irish Language: Education

(asked on 9th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will take steps to ensure a choice for schools who do not wish to teach the Irish Language in any legislative proposals on the Irish Language.


Answered by
Conor Burns Portrait
Conor Burns
This question was answered on 15th November 2021

The Government is taking forward the carefully negotiated legislative commitments on identity, language and culture in the New Decade, New Approach agreement as the Northern Ireland Executive has not done so.

The New Decade, New Approach agreement did not include provision for the teaching of the Irish language in schools and as such, the legislation the Government will introduce makes no change to the current arrangements

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