Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Deputy O'Shea knows I am more than willing to debate this issue in detail at the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Two legitimate issues arise in the context of Deputy O'Shea's question. The Official Languages Act 2003, which was introduced on foot of the Ó Beoláin judgment, which would have forced us to translate every document in the country into Irish, requires us to translate a limited number of documents. We need to consider how we can provide documents in two languages at a minimum cost. We can publish them on the Internet, we can reduce the size of documents and we can use standard templates for the purposes of translation.

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