Mr. Dara Keogh:

Beidh mé ag caint i mBéarla. We have as many addresses in all of Ireland in Irish as we can for as much of the address as we can. That applies to everywhere and not just to the Gaeltacht. We are trying to have an all-Ireland approach here in having everything, or as much as we can, in Irish. We have a dual language database both in Irish and English. In terms of the Gaeltacht specifically, there are some things that are named in English still and we have to record them as being in English. For example, business names can be recorded in English. We have to record the business name as it is because that is what people know it as. We break down the address into various components, and one of those would be the localities, on which those in logainm.iework very hard, but some of them are still in the process of being translated. As we heard in the opening statement by the Chair, there are at least 500,000 changes made per annum on a 2.3 million database. It is very fluid, there is a lot of change and we are always trying to catch up on work and keep it up to date and current. The vast majority of the addresses in the Gaeltacht areas are going to be available in Irish but there are some that will not be and therefore we are still always working towards finishing.