Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

This is an important issue, which, perhaps, we need to address through the Courts Service. I have had some positive experiences with translators.

In my professional work I also have had some negative experiences, including the classic whereby the person one is trying to speak to will talk for five minutes and the translator will offer a one word response. Certainly, in the context of access to justice, we all need to be drilling into this more.