Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

I will make a minor point in relation to section 19. I want to make this point because it is right to do so. The State has passed legislation regarding the naming of agencies of the State, whose names have to be in Irish. That has not been given effect to yet; only the logos of the names having to be bilingual has been given effect to. It annoys me that we see listed in this section five agencies of the State, three of which have got their Gaelic names, and rightly so, but whereby two of the newly established ones, including the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, which was only established last year, have no Irish name. I wanted to make that point.

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