Vol. 500 No. 2
197 Mr. O'Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the amount of money his Department has directly or indirectly spent on the use and promotion of the Irish language in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3862/99]
The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available or easily accessible and would require an inordinate amount of official time to collate as many of the programmes funded from the budget of the Department of Education and Science contain elements of funding for the use and promotion of the Irish language.
