Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will try and capture them all. Amendment No. 175 would ensure that the national planning framework has regard to language plans.

Amendment No. 192 would ensure that the reference to the distinct amenities, character and vitality of rural areas is expanded to cover rural and Gaeltacht areas.

Amendment No. 193 is again from Conradh na Gaelige and refers to:

... protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Bailte Seirbhíse Gaeltachta outside of the Gaeltacht and in Líonraí Gaeilge.

Amendment No. 208 seeks to include a specific matter, namely, to have regard to the prevention, reduction, amelioration and mitigation of risks of socio-linguistic damage in Gaeltacht areas. It is about avoiding or impairing the decline of Irish-speaking areas in the Gaeltacht through planning and ensuring that there is a set plan. There are areas within the Gaeltacht that have eroded over a period because they did not have protections and where Irish is no longer the main language spoken. One of key elements is that we do not give up the ghost on those areas but have specific planning policy towards them on top of the language plans and other plans that are set out.

Amendment No. 209 goes further in this respect in seeking to include in the national planning statement an objective to restore Irish as a spoken language nationwide and a community language of the Gaeltacht.