European Parliament
President.
You naturally have the right to use the time available to you as you wish. However, you well know, as we all do, that Irish is not a working language of the Union. Therefore our colleagues and Mr Barroso could not understand what you said, although it sounded very nice.
You can work towards having Irish as a working language of the Union. We will see how successful you are, along with our colleague who spoke Catalan yesterday, or my German colleagues who speak Sorbian.

