Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 108 seeks to add specific condition requirements for licences to provide that they may not be granted for advertisements or town or landscape maps unless they are in both Irish and English and provides that the planning authority may issue guidance to provide that the Irish text is no less prominent. The attachment of conditions to licences is a matter for the individual planning authority and should be assessed on a case-by-case basis having regard to the matters set out in the Bill in section 12(7). The Official Languages Act already sets out requirements for advertising and the use of the Irish language by State authorities so it is already provided for in that regard; I am not in a position to accept amendment No. 108, although I do appreciate the thought behind it in terms of what the Deputy is trying to achieve.