Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will respond in English so that everybody will understand this. What the Deputy has just said is typical of the reasons that we are not as bilingual as we should be. The Deputy is suggesting that neither the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, nor the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, is capable of learning our native tongue or relearning it as the case may be. I think it is an insult from the Deputy, as leader of his party, to make that kind of suggestion. I strongly believe that-----

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