Mr. Joe Hamill:

We are trying to address this issue on a number of fronts. We are trying to say we should only routinely translate certain limited categories of documents. The next set of documents should be specified by the Minister from time to time. The complaints we were receiving were about documents that might be related to draft plans or the like being translated, for which there was very little demand, while there was a large translation cost.

We are also doing some work with Dublin City University on better ways of translating documents using technology. There is a more efficient way of translating documents at far less cost. Some call it "machine translation"-----