Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is my understanding and that is the advice I have. The 20-year strategy is a policy position rather than statutory legislation. However, the Official Languages Act 2003, which I was in the course of describing when Deputy O'Brien arrived, is law and that Act, among other things, obliges public bodies, which the VECs are and the ETBs will be, to meet the relevant Irish language requirements and that would be specifically the case where there are Gaeltacht areas within the area of the relevant ETB.