Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Unfortunately I do not have the legal power to deal with this matter and neither has the commissioner. This is a tricky issue because it is a handbook rather than a regulation. I agree with the Deputy. There is no excuse for what is happening. The local authorities can get the proper, official forms from the placenames branch. I do not understand how they cannot copy down the official spellings for use on the signs.

I do not like to interject because the Deputy is in full flow but he may remember the famous sign over near Cross, for Inishmacatreer, known in Irish as Inis Mhic a' Trír. They managed, in some marvellous achievement, to put a different version of the Irish name on both sides of the same sign. This is the one that took the biscuit, in my view. It should be given full marks for total codology.

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