Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will go back to the issue of the Irish language copy of the document.

We had hard copies as Gaeilge on the island on the day. They were translated. I had them in my hand, both copies of the action plan and the policy document. It went up later online, but they were definitely there on the day - in fact, that morning.

We have a monitoring committee here. I only launched the strategy last week and I have officials working on the next steps in terms of the monitoring committee. There will be representatives from Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann and Comhar na nOileán and we are engaging with them regarding representations on the committee.

I will be on the committee as well. I assure the Deputy that, between me and the islanders, we will hold all the various Departments to account.

There are real actions there. I know that it took longer but I wanted to make sure that we had real tangible actions in this policy.

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