Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will not delay the proceedings. I just want to ask that the Minister look again at amendment No. 29 on oifig na bprintíseachtaí before the Stages in the Seanad to make sure that fully complies. The understanding I had was that the names of any new State institutions being set up would first have the Irish-language version. It was not that they were exclusively so but it was first. It is a minor change but as we know, once the title of an institution, or even the abbreviations, get into people's parlance it is hard to change it. People remember Córas Iompair Éireann, CIÉ. It was easy and it made no major difference to people who said it, especially when there was an abbreviation, but the HEA is the HEA and people will not use the Irish version. There is a reasoning behind some of this and I ask the Minister to bear that in mind.

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