Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

The cost to the end of 2006 of implementing the Official Languages Act 2003 in my Department and its offices was €156,667 for translation and website development.

In 2006 the number of documents published by my Department and its offices was 26. Of those, 14 were published in one language only, English. The number of documents published in both Irish and English was 12, and in two of those cases the Irish version was published more than two weeks after the English one.

My Department is fully committed to the implementation of the Official Languages Act 2003. It is already fulfilling many of the requirements of the 2003 Act, although the Department has not yet been formally notified by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to draw up a statutory scheme outlining the Department's plans for compliance.

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