Ms Valerie Loughnane:

To clarify, the first Gaeltacht plan was published in 2008. We were the first local authority in the country to do a Gaeltacht plan. We subsequently wrote a variation in 2018 and now we have it in the draft plan as well. On the linguistic impact statements, any housing estate of two or more houses would have a linguistic impact statement attached to it. In recent years there have not been that many of those applications but other types of applications have them as well. I do not have the exact number to date but anything within the Gaeltacht would be required to have one because it is a policy objective in the plan.