Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is a question of recognising that our language is a European language. This country has not measured up in terms of providing a sufficient number of people of sufficient standard to sit in those boxes and translate the communiqués and the language in the way we would wish. We have to extend that out to 2021. I do not like that because there is no reason we cannot be much better. Yesterday I attended a little function in the west where people have used some of the resources given by the Aire Stáit and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to promote Irish business, Irish manufactured goods, to identify people who can speak Gaeilge and who are not afraid to speak it and to use many of the very modern ways of communicating language. I will confirm the dates when the committee met.

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