{"id":389,"date":"2012-04-22T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/language-contradictions-raised-in-dail\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:45:14","slug":"language-contradictions-raised-in-dail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/language-contradictions-raised-in-dail\/","title":{"rendered":"Language contradictions raised in D\u00e1il"},"content":{"rendered":"

Language contradictions raised in D\u00e1il<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0 raised his concerns in relation to the Irish Language and its roll out with Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn during the most recent \u00a0D\u00e1il\u00a0Question Time\u00a0and said\u00a0that changes in pupil teacher ratios and staffing schedules will greatly impact on Gaeltacht schools and undermine the 20 year Irish Language plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowe also emphasised the vital and\u00a0important role that the Gaeltacht and Gaelscoilleana\u00a0 have in developing and ensuring the long-term viability of the Irish language.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe said:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Minister and the Department of Education and Skills have the lead role in delivering the 20 year plan on the development of the Irish Language yet its budget measures would appear to undermining and hollowing out that very plan. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUp until now, Gaeltacht schools had a preferential pupil teacher ratio in recognition of the challenges of teaching in Irish medium schools. This reflected the lack of teaching resources available to teachers and the imminent decline of the language. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is therefore very worrying that gaelscoileanna are being hit doubly hard with changes in the staffing schedules combined with the ending of the preferential pupil teacher ratio. This is likely to lead to the forced\u00a0 closure of many Irish language schools and it is a contradiction\u00a0 that Minister Quinn and his Government colleagues must address.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTeachers who are proficient in the language have also an essential role helping to ensure the future viability of our native tongue as a vibrant, working, living language. <\/span><\/p>\n

“I sought clarification on a number of points from the Minister Quinn including an explanation as to why the funding for trainee teachers to attend Irish language courses in the Gaeltacht been cut and an update on how plans progressing for the establishment of an Irish training college.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Minister didn’t seem to have many answers in relation to these important matters.<\/p>\n

“The 20 year plan for the Irish Language is essential for the preparation of teachers to teach Irish at all stages of the continuum and it is equally essential that supports for gaelscoileanna remain in place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“The\u00a0current\u00a0piecemeal approach\u00a0that is removing and taking vital supports away from Gaelscoilleana\u00a0is undermining the Plan and needs to be overturned We need a\u00a0proactive supportive\u00a0stratgey\u00a0 that will safeguard\u00a0 develope and nurture \u00a0the Irish language.The\u00a0\u00a0latest\u00a0one that is saying one thing and doing opposite.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Language contradictions raised in D\u00e1il Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe\u00a0 raised his concerns in relation to the Irish Language and its roll out with Minister Ruair\u00ed Quinn during the most recent \u00a0D\u00e1il\u00a0Question Time\u00a0and said\u00a0that changes in pupil teacher ratios and staffing schedules will greatly impact on Gaeltacht schools and undermine the 20 year Irish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}