Ms Caroline Phelan:

Ours is more lateral in the sense that we have not been highlighting or siphoning the sections of the city that speak Irish. We have taken the city and laboured that with regard to the policies. It is the bilingual city. We have been promoting Irish throughout the whole geographical area where the predominate population live. I referred to two areas, both of which contain huge swathes of rural lands and protected lands also. Although they may represent a significant geographical proportion within the area, much of that area, as the Deputy knows, beyond Castlegar etc., is not zoned for housing or settlement on that basis. To answer the Deputy's question, we did not analyse where the 2% was distributed. It may have been a disadvantage, if anything, because I presume it is distributed throughout the city as opposed to being exclusively in our most populated area, the Barna area, which includes all the new housing that has led to an influx of people from outside the city. I am making a presumption that it was probably better to assume the 2% was widespread throughout the city rather than concentrated-----