Ms Aoife Lyons:

Further research is required. We have experience of candidates coming back to say that they did not know they would have to be assessed through Irish. There was a lack of understanding of our processes. I hope the campaigns specifically for Irish speakers, to which Ms Comerford referred, will result in a critical mass of people and that it will no longer be a case of a person being the only Irish speaker in the building and therefore being given all the translation work. If there are two, three or four people with Irish, there will be more diversity in the work. I totally take the Deputy's point but I hope the step we are taking with these focused Irish language campaigns will mean that Irish speakers will not be a novelty and that they will be seen far more frequently.