How many Irish people speak Irish fluently(even as a second language)?

How many Irish people speak Irish fluently(even as a second language)?
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answer:Here are some figures. I don’t know how accurate they are. “Around the turn of the 21st century, estimates of native speakers ranged from 20,000 to 80,000 people. In the 2006 census for the Republic, 85,000 people reported using Irish as a daily language outside of the education system, and 1.2 million reported using it at least occasionally in or out of school. In the 2011 Census, these numbers had increased to 94,000 and 1.3 million, respectively. There are also thousands of Irish speakers in Northern Ireland, and a comparable number of fluent speakers in the United States and Canada Historically the island of Newfoundland had a dialect of Irish Gaelic, called Newfoundland Irish.” Source
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