Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

We ask them to use machine translation. These documents are published only every five years. Many documents are published in English which nobody reads but they are still entitled to them. I want this done as cheaply as possible. For years I have begged for web publication in Irish and English because it saves the State money. I implore people to stop sending me unnecessary annual reports which I can access on the web in Irish and English. The truth is that most of them end up in wastepaper baskets. The amount of money spent on documents for which we never receive an Irish translation and which go straight in the wastepaper basket is scandalous. Let us stop and let us not blame the Irish language for it.

This has been a useful debate and I could state a great deal more. I thank Deputies for contributing and I look forward to Deputy Deasy tabling his amendments in the House. We can have a full, proper and detailed debate and establish what is the will of the House as opposed to the alleged fact that I was able to use a biorán suan of some type to put Members to sleep and pass the Official Languages Act all on my owny-own.

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