Foreign Affairs spends €750kon languages

Fancy brushing up on your Arabic, Korean, Hebrew, Greek, Thai, or Turkish?

Then the Department of Foreign Affairs is the place for you, where figures show that the department has spent almost €750,000 on language tuition for its globetrotting staff over the past four years.

According to information released by the department in response to a Freedom of Information request, tutors and language schools are receiving hourly payments up to €67.50 for one-to-one tuition to help with their Maltese, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, and a score of other languages.