Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)

At the end of the day the question is whether the funds used by the State on the promotion of the Irish language are being used to best effect. In other words is it helping to promote wider use of the Irish language among the population at large? My concern is that the resources being deployed under the Act are not getting the best value for money in the objective of making this a bilingual State as quickly as possible. It is like pouring this money down the drain in terms of the underlying objective of promoting the Irish language.

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