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Cuirim fáilte roimh Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta. Feabhsóidh Bille na Teangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019 seirbhísí poiblí trí Ghaeilge agus tabharfaidh sé tacaíocht do chainteoirí Gaeilge. Tá mé ag tnúth go mór leis an gcoiste comhairleach um sheirbhísí Gaeilge. Mar a dúirt an tAire Stáit, tá sé an-tráthúil gurb é inniu breithlá Phádraig Mac Piarais. Bhí sé ina fhile, ina mhúinteoir agus ina scríbhneoir. Bhí an-ghrá aige do Ghaeilge Ros Muc na Gaillimhe. Tá sé an-tábhachtach go mbeadh an rogha ag daoine agus daltaí an Ghaeilge a úsáid. Tá sé tábhachtach freisin teangacha eile amhail an Fhraincis nó français agus castellano a bheith ag daoine freisin. Ní neart go cur le chéile agus baineann sé seo le hÉireannaigh nua freisin. Nuair a bhí mé ar scoil ní raibh Gaelscoileanna ar fáil, ach tá an-rogha ag daltaí anois i nGaillimh agus i Ros Comáin. Is as Béal Átha na Sluaighe dom agus tá Gaelscoil Uí Cheithearnaigh ann anois agus tá Gaelscoil de hÍde i Ros Comáin. Bhí Dubhghlas de hÍde, An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, ar an gcéad Uachtarán in Éirinn agus ba as Ros Comáin dó. Bhunaigh sé Conradh na Gaeilge, from which I have received a number of suggestions.

One of the amendments from Conradh na Gaeilge seeks to ensure the employee in charge of implementing the duties set out under this legislation in his or her public body will be a member of the body's senior management team. Conradh na Gaeilge would like to insert the words "a member of the senior management team" into the text of the Bill. It is also requesting an amendment to section 2 to provide that in the case of communication in the English and Irish languages, the public body will ensure the text will be in Irish first and will be conspicuous, visible and legible, and that the letters in the Irish text will not be smaller in size than the letters in the English text. It is seeking to ensure the Irish text will convey the same information as the English text and a word in the Irish text will not be abbreviated unless the word in the English text, which is a translation, is also abbreviated. The third amendment that Conradh na Gaeilge is proposing seeks to insert the words "the Minister shall, after consultation with any of the Ministers of the Government or, as the Minister considers appropriate, having regard to the functions of the public body, prescribe the body for the purposes of this section by 31 December 2024" in page 10 of the Bill. Given that Conradh na Gaeilge was founded by our first President, Dubhghlas de hÍde, it is very appropriate that we consider its proposals.

Is í an Ghaeilge an chéad teanga oifigiúil. Is teanga álainn í, mar a thaispeáin na drámaí de chuid John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett agus Brian Friel. Like Hiberno-English, tá sí an-fhileata sa bhealach ina labhraítear í. Tá a lán údair Ghaeilge, cosúil le Eoin Colfer, ann do dhaoine óga. Is dalta mé freisin, more so with beginners Gaeilge, san Oireachtas agus tá sé go hiontach.