Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

However, Mr. Patterson said Irish is part of the role. If a couple of languages were needed I might be better at Irish than at German, for example, and someone else might be better at German. People will not have equal skills.

Mr. Patterson said he audited one of the cases the commissioner looked into. Was Irish compulsory for that job or was it desirable? Given that he ruled that competence in Irish should have been taken into account at the beginning of the process in that situation, will the CPSA follow his direction from now on? He has ruled, as a language commissioner and ombudsman, that that practice should be followed. Is the CPSA now following that ruling?