Ms Valerie Loughnane:

What we are trying to do now is continue to promote and enhance the Irish language. From the point of view of going forward with it now, we are trying to keep what we have but also enhance it. That is what we are trying to do with our current draft county development plan. In the plan that is in place at the moment, we have policies with respect to rural housing, which is dispersed, as well as more centralised housing in towns and villages. We would have looked at all of that when dealing with the policy objectives in our new draft county development plan.

With respect to the enurements and so on, the Irish language enurements are signed in order to comply with the conditions attached to the permission.

We would therefore be notified if they were to be sold on. There is monitoring from that perspective because there must be compliance with conditions. That does not happen regularly but we have had a few cases over a long number of years.

With respect to enhancing and protecting the Irish language, it is a whole package. It is not about what particular sport or music people play. If they are Irish speakers they will immerse themselves in the Gaeltacht and promote and enhance the whole thing-----