Ms Valerie Loughnane:

It was not a direct study but because we matched it up, and all the studies we have done have looked at it from a policy perspective matching up with the language planning areas, we would have looked at all the different settlement patterns within those districts. Those districts vary. For example, Baile Chláir, which is on the edge of the city, is in the Gaeltacht area and the amount of spoken Irish there is much less than further out west like in Carna or beyond. From that perspective, the answer to the Deputy’s question is “Yes”, in a way. The language planning areas are so diverse that we would have intrinsically looked at different settlement patterns or dispersals of settlements, as they are so diverse within those districts.