Ms Caroline Phelan:

To respond to that, I do not think so. We viewed it much more laterally in taking the whole city and any capacity for expansion of the use of the language within the whole city, as does the language Act for the city in that it is not exclusively relevant to those two geographical areas. In addition, it is not the place of a planning authority to eliminate Gaeltachts, for starters. The other part of that is the cultural heritage of the Gaeltacht: it does not reside exclusively within those geographical areas either. As was said, institutions such as Áras na nGael and Gaillimh le Gaeilge are located within the non-Gaeltacht areas. There is a whole physical legacy and music legacy etc. throughout the whole city. It would have been remiss and reductionist of us to reduce it to electoral divisions within the city to find that 2%, hunt them down and give them a label. We view it much more laterally. We also embrace the culture associated with it. That is what the statutory objective states; it is not exclusively linguistic. It includes the cultural heritage of the Gaeltacht.