Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands

Seirbhísí Dátheangacha: An Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe

5:00 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is the last time I will ask this question. How does the Department assess if there is potential demand? What international best practices are used to ensure that, in a society that is largely either monolingual with English or bilingual with Irish and English, those who would prefer to do business in Irish can do so easily and to the same standard? I am saying that there is a massive pent-up demand. All five members of the committee here can testify to the fact that, where there is a parallel English language system operating to that for the Irish language, to get equal service to everybody else-----

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