Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 366: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the interim progress reports provided by the consultants employed by his Department into the linguistic study of Irish usage in the Gaeltacht areas will be laid before Dáil Éireann; when he expects to receive the final report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40015/06]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Work on the linguistic study to which the Deputy refers has now been completed and a draft report has been presented to my Department. This is now being assessed by my officials in conjunction with the project steering group. As I have already outlined to the House, all of the findings and proposals emerging from the study will require careful and considered examination and no decisions will be made on foot of the study until that process has been completed.

It is not my intention to publish the interim progress reports that were supplied by the consultants as part of their ongoing work on the project. However, I anticipate that the report will be published in due course and I will be glad to make copies available in the Oireachtas Library at that time.