Ms Moira Murrell:

This goes back to the point about single rural dwellings. In our case in Kerry at this time, it is a requirement under our county development plan that a person be local to receive planning permission.

You would hope that would support the language as there would be a reasonable expectation that the majority of people applying would be from the Gaeltacht. In Kerry a seven-year occupancy clause applies and it is not specifically tied to the language because we are taking the view that if people are local and tied to the area that would suffice. It is no different to any occupancy clause anywhere else in the county. That is as far as we feel that the seven-year occupancy clause can apply.