Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. This Bill is significant in the history of the language, our State and country. The purpose of the Bill is to save the language. I hope there is agreement across the House on that. It is not just to save údarás elections. If údarás elections were to save the language, then clearly they have failed because the number of Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht has decreased from 90,000 down to 23,000. I would be supporting údarás and údarás elections. It is not that there will not be an údarás.