Mr. Joe Hamill:

To respond to the first part of the question, there is a proposal in the Bill to amend the manner in which decisions are made on the documents that are translated. To be fair, the Language Commissioner has acknowledged that spending money on translating documents for which there is no demand subsequently is not the best way to use resources. One thing we are considering - obviously this will be subject to progress through the Oireachtas and so forth - is the need to keep the provision that specific documents of public interest continue to be produced bilingually such as annual reports, strategy statements from Departments and the like. However, beyond this, there would be a mechanism to bring flexibility to how one would define-----