Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community
Logainmneacha na Gaeltachta: Plé (Atógáil)
Mr. Dara Keogh:
We do co-operate. We work very hard to do this. It is an ongoing process and we are committed to doing it. Essentially, GeoDirectory sits between the data manufacturer, which is An Post and Ordnance Survey Ireland, and the market, which is Eircode. We distribute and we have to communicate what the market wants and help our parent organisations work towards that goal, which in this case is getting all the Gaeltacht areas translated. That is our role. It is to disseminate and work with the market. That is Eircode in this case but we would also work with anyone in the market to enable them to supply a service to everybody in the Gaeltacht community in whatever language they want to do their business in. That could be booking a taxi, ordering a pizza or getting an ambulance. Whatever people want to do, they should be able to do it in whichever language they prefer to do it in. That is our objective.