There were two main issues, primarily in relation to the curriculum content and its resonance to nationalism and subsequently in relation to the congested areas of study it contained. Consequently, the Government altered the then current report of the national program conference and many changes were made. The government worked extremely hard in an effort to achieve this, they wanted the most important aspect of the new program to be the exceptional knowledge of Irish. In implementing this new program they believed they were "Giving the Language, history, music and tradition of Ireland their natural place of life in Irish schools" (Coolahan, 1981 pg. 41) As an INTO initiative, Irish become an obligatory subject where infant schools were taught comprehensively through Irish. However with only 1200 bilingual teachers in the country this concept was almost unachievable and furthermore caused much controversy. .
Although this program "set the general pattern and tone of Irish education for almost fifty years" (Coolahan, 1981, pg. 41) there were important rectifications put in place prior to the program being made conclusive. Distinctly, the Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill had a prominent role to play in this. In 1926 the second program conference assembled by the Minister, accepted opinions from an extended audience but was not intended to stray greatly from the original beliefs constructed. The approach altered by MacNeill was much more realistic and less over ambitious than the previous proposition. Changes were seen in relation to the introduction of higher and lower courses in English and Irish, the higher course to be undertaken in the "predominant language of the school" (Coolahan, 1981, pg. 42). One of the most welcomed changes MacNeill made was in relation to Irish in the Infant classroom. Due to the abundance of difficulties being encountered; the new program "allowed a concession in the infant classes owing to difficulties using Irish as the medium of instruction, of insisting on Irish between 10.