Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the issue. A lot of Irish speakers who have the right to deal with the State in the Irish language are opting to fill out applications and have them processed in English because they fear that the capacity does not exist to process them quickly in Irish and that they will be held up. I ask the witnesses to provide data on the numbers employed currently who would be able to process applications in Irish if so demanded. If everybody who requested an application form in Irish went ahead and submitted their application in Irish, what kind of delays would we see?