Dr. Fergal Lynch:

To take the other part of the question on increasing the number of people who speak Irish within the Civil Service, or more specifically within the Department, we keep the number we require under review. We do not have a great extent of Irish language requirement within the Department because the number of services that provide directly to the public is relatively limited. It is largely confined to answering phone calls and some queries and so on.

We are not providing services directly.