Ms Deirdre Shanley:

I accept the Deputy's point in the context of forms being in Irish. The Department always examines the forms we produce in terms of their complexity and we try to ensure that we produce forms that are as simple as possible to understand in all languages and we have responsibilities to have those forms examined by The National Adult Literacy Agency, NALA, in terms of literacy and then we translate those forms in order to provide the Irish version of the form. The Deputy's suggestion of having native Irish speakers look at the forms or providing them to other members of staff within the Department who are native Irish speakers and working in different areas is something that we could take on board in the context of the development of our new language scheme to make sure that our forms are as accessible as possible. It is something that the Department always tries to do with all of the forms and services we provide.