Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community
An tAire Dlí agus Cirt: Plé.
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The Garda Commissioner needs to be mindful of striking a balance and make sure that people going for promotion have the relevant skills needed for that promotion while also ensuring we have enough people with proficiency in Irish. This goes back to the original point that the more people we have in An Garda Síochána who can speak Irish fluently or who are proficient in the language, the more such people will rise through the ranks having gone through that promotion process. What came out of the process of developing the new regulations was the need to make sure that people were able to do the job. It is not that the language issue is secondary. It is still important but it needs to be balance with the overall need to be able to do the work. The fact that competency and proficiency in the language is still required means that there is still a focus on it.
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