Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Absolutely. I could not agree more with the Deputy. Some time before it was published I read a draft of the report from end to end. It contains an incredible wealth of knowledge and I recommend that anybody who is interested in policy development in respect of the Irish language read it although it is heavy reading and contains quite a lot of detail.

We were willing to fund the other report because this is a series of reports undertaken by Fr. Micheál over 30 years. It offers something that one would not normally get, tracking over a 30 year period the usage and knowledge of the language and attitudes towards it, which is obviously very useful when we are building a 20 year strategy. I was anxious that this report would be in the public domain before we published the 20 year strategy because it is informing my view——

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