Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)

As usual, the Minister has gone all around the shop. We need to get down to the basic point. We want to promote the use of the Irish language. We are not helping the language by publishing a pile of stuff that very few people read. The point I am making is that money which could be better spent on other aspects of the Irish language is being wasted. The Minister needs to have a good look at this. The country is in a bad state at the moment. Things are not going well for the language, which is being hindered by delays. We have to stop wasting money. The Minister is well aware that this sort of thing is antagonising people and causing them to move away from the Irish language. It is about time the Minister got real by starting to eliminate waste and getting rid of some of his obscurantist ideas.

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