Ms Helen Coleman:

I will add to Ms Phelan's point on what we can and cannot put into the development plan. We are quite restricted. We have the national planning framework, NPF and the regional spatial and economic strategy, RSES, which is a new national regional spatial framework and we have to align with the requirements of those frameworks. The development plan's policy is largely evolved from those two national and regional frameworks and section 28 guidelines issued by the Government. We have been given significant direction as to what we can and cannot put into the development plan, but, certainly, if we allocated policy directly for Irish house inhabitants, we would not be able to do so in the current land-use zoning we have.

With regard to section 7.4 of the draft city development plan on bilingual cities, which seeks to "support and facilitate the development of infrastructure", we would have a two-year progress report, once the development plan has been adopted, which would outline how we have met that objective. That could be through our cultural strategy of implementing projects or we have implementation of our public realm strategy, part of which is promotion of use of public realm spaces in the city for various projects. We looked at some of those projects being for people who are resident in the Gaeltacht and come into the city centre for festivals such as the arts festival and that those would be Irish or bilingual. It is a range of cultural projects we would have over the year. We would monitor it through the two-year report on the implementation of the development plan objectives.