Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

It will be done a lot sooner than the Deputy thinks. I will surprise him some day just when he is getting very impatient. It is a 20 year strategy and we want to get it as right as possible. It will also include the response to the stádas theanga eolaoíchta in the Gaeltacht. This will be the big throw at having a proper strategy. I have sympathy for the Deputy in respect of the cost. If it was not a 20 year strategy and if I did not think that Deputy O'Shea would be asking all sorts of questions about whether the experts agreed with what the Government put into the strategy, we might have skipped some of the experts' costs but there is a saying in Irish "marbh le tae agus marbh gan é" and I do not know whether I should have had the tae or fanacht gan é but sin mar——

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