Mr. Kevin Kelly:

The short answer to Deputy Ó Cuív’s question is that in Mayo we do not undertake a study or monitoring in respect of housing estates. Nine housing estates were developed in Gaeltacht areas of limited size between 2009 and 2021, which is one a year. None were developed in recent years. There have been a limited number of one-off housing developments within that area, notwithstanding the population of almost 9,500. There are probably 37 individual permissions granted yearly. We do not have the same set-up in terms of enurement clauses and so forth as might be in place in Galway. We do not have any monitoring of conditions or language usage within the estates in the Gaeltacht areas.