Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)
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I appreciate that Ms Coleman cannot go into the details of the case but there has been the case of de Búrca v. An tAire Iompair. Has there been any other similar cases where people have sought compensation for the language not been taken into consideration in promotions or have any compensatory payments been made to people from the Department in situations such as that? I take it Ms Coleman is telling me that the Minister considers he can disregard the ruling of the language commissioner because of his position as a Minister under the other Act. I reaffirm that the fundamental point that the commissioner made in his report was that he did believe the circulars were prescriptive. He indicated that in the report and said that they should be followed. What is the policy of the Department to ensure that we have Irish speakers throughout the system and what is Ms Coleman's proactive way of promoting that?