Joe Conway (Independent)

I am charmed and warmed by the Minister of State's outline of where they are going forward. It sounds like a to-do list,and when people are coming up with to-do lists, it usually implies that people have been asleep at the wheel.

The Irish versions of the new EU legal materials are being produced in real time. However, the EUR-Lex website, where EU law is published, has most important historical EU legislation, for example, the working time directive, and this is not available in Gaeilge. They are available in every other language, including those with far fewer speakers in the EU such as Maltese. This is invariably and solely down to the lack of translation staff at EU level. What is being done or what is being proposed to be done by the Government to obviate these failures and shortfalls? It is not good enough. It is a catalogue of being asleep at the wheel.