Ms Valerie Loughnane:

We have a standard. There is liaising ongoing between councils and the working group is trying to establish consistency across the board, as previous speakers said. Our standard is assessed under three different criteria, namely, the ability in the language, a commitment to the language and how the applicant uses the language in his or her everyday life. We have an interview process that assesses applicants under the three different criteria. That applies across the board be it for developments in estates with two or more houses or individual applications for one-off houses. We spoke about the monitoring previously. We apply enurement clauses which are conditions that have to be complied with.