Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I propose to take Questions Nos 121, 126, 128, 137, 139, 143, 147 and 159 together.

As the Minister of State stated in reply to Priority Question No. 117, and as indicated to this House on a number of occasions, the recommendations in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes represent a set of options for consideration in the context of the 2010 budget and will fall to be examined by Government at the appropriate time. Decisions on specific matters referred to by Deputies will be made in that context. Matters relating to the Gaeltacht will be also considered by the Cabinet Committee on Irish and the Gaeltacht in the context of its work on the preparation of the 20-year strategy for Irish.

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