Ní Mhurchú said planning permission is becoming impossible for young native speakers who have land but are refused permission to build in Gaeltacht areas.

Since the scandal emerged, Minister for the Arts Patrick O’Donovan has said is among issues that have caused “huge embarrassment” to his department in recent times

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the first important national plan by the Government to support the Irish language in a newly independent Irish Free State, and celebrations are already underway in the Déise with upcoming events this August