Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands
Seirbhísí Dátheangacha: An Roinn Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe
5:00 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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This is the last time I will ask this question. How does the Department assess if there is potential demand? What international best practices are used to ensure that, in a society that is largely either monolingual with English or bilingual with Irish and English, those who would prefer to do business in Irish can do so easily and to the same standard? I am saying that there is a massive pent-up demand. All five members of the committee here can testify to the fact that, where there is a parallel English language system operating to that for the Irish language, to get equal service to everybody else-----