Where’s the logic in FG’s Irish language policy?

BRENDAN COFFEY maintains that the policy of Fine Gael “to end the compulsion to take Irish for the Leaving Cert” is not abolition (Irish Examiner letters, July 3).

Perhaps he is right. However, I have difficulty understanding the logic of this scheme.

Can he explain to me how this choice will “equip our people, and particularly our young people, with a real, a useful, and a communicative knowledge of the Irish language,” to quote Enda Kenny’s own words?