Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands

Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Leanaí agus Gnóthaí Óige

4:00 pm

Dr. Fergal Lynch:

I understand the question.

What we have been trying to do is to make Irish, Irish-friendly throughout the system, irrespective of whether the area is Irish speaking, a Gaeltacht area or a non-Gaeltacht area. We are very open to that. Nothing in my responses is meant to imply otherwise. We would be more than open to supporting that in any way we can and part of that is simply making the language Irish-friendly and that is why I was referring to the most basic things like communications, the leaflets, the posters and all of that but it is wider than that.