Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

These are defined places and there are not hundreds of them but 16, which I have just gone through. One would absolutely expect the Department to have regard to them in any event. It certainly should, and it will. Language development plans and plans for the language, that is, not development plans from a planning perspective, are also in place and they are clearly defined, as are the areas. I do not see, therefore, the benefit of including the amendment. It is another layer and the Deputy is seeking to put that into the Bill.

They are already defined. Gaeltacht is defined as well. Gaeltacht planning areas are defined. They are in the Bill already.