Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is already covered. I am reading from the note. The Irish language service advisory committee was established by the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in accordance with section 18 of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021. The advisory committee's primary focus is the preparation of the first national plan for the Irish-medium public services, due to be delivered by the statutory deadline of 19 June of this year. The preparation of the national plan is in line with achieving the overarching objective in the Official Languages Act, which is that 20% of recruits to the public sector will be competent in Irish by 31 December 2030. An Bord Pleanála and the Office of the Planning Regulator are both listed in the first Schedule to the Official Languages Act as public bodies within the scope of the Act. Therefore, we believe what Deputy Ó Broin is proposing is already catered for. The approved housing bodies are dealt with under the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019. I do not have the details of the Act here. I am not certain whether Údarás na Gaeltachta, for example, would qualify under the terms of the Act and the scheme. I will come back to the Deputy on that.

The Chair will have to secure a different committee room for these meetings because the broadband coverage is very poor here in committee room 4, as I know from experience over many years. It still has not been sorted.