Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I am sure he realises the Department of the Taoiseach must interface even with his Department. I will ask a question relating to the Department of the Taoiseach before the Ceann Comhairle asks me to sit down. It concerns the quality customer service charter standards for doing business through Irish. I recently spoke to a civil servant who was unable to say who would deal with queries through Irish. Should the Taoiseach not review that aspect of the quality customer service charter? It is one thing to put something down on paper, but will every civil servant be able to say who will deal with queries through Irish? It would be ideal if the person to whom I referred could do so, but the person was from England and had no Irish.

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