Ba mhaith liom tagairt a dhéanamh ar maidin do chur i láthair a bheidh ar siúl in Óstán Buswells ag a haon a chlog inniu, eagraithe ag na 13 bunscoil ar na hoileáin amuigh ón chósta, cúig cinn nach bhfuil ach aon oide acu agus ocht gcinn a bhfuil beirt mhúinteoirí acu. Léireoidh mé an fhadhb atá ag cuid de na scoileanna. The problem for some of the schools located on our offshore islands is the number of teachers. Five of the 13 primary schools located on offshore islands have only one teacher. That is totally unacceptable from a teaching point of view, given that that one teacher must act as principal, teach all of the classes, look after all of the pupils, and take care of health and safety, supervision, etc. We have only 13 island schools in the country. A presentation on this issue will take place at 1 p.m. in Buswells Hotel, and Councillor Seán Ó Tuairisg from Galway will lead the delegation. It is vital that the Department of Education and Skills adopt a policy under which no school on an island can have fewer than two teachers from the points of view of health and safety, child protection, education policy, etc. We are talking about only five schools that are being left behind. For example, Scoil Náisiúnta Inis Meáin has nine pupils enrolled for September. Half of the pupils speak fluent Irish, but one pupil, who is from Belarus, speaks very little English and some of the other pupils speak only English. That means the teacher faces a major task in acting as educator in that particular role. We need a debate on the matter, specifically on the Gaeltacht Irish language policy in terms of education, but also particularly with regard to offshore island schools. I ask the Leader to facilitate a debate on the issue.