Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of the staff of his Department able to provide services through Irish. [14179/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Finance has currently over 600 staff members.

In order to ascertain the level of expertise in Irish among staff, a survey was carried out asking staff to rate their ability to write, read and speak Irish and to indicate if they were willing to have their names included in a contact list for the Department.

Based on this survey 33 people or some 5.5% of staff are willing to provide some level of service through Irish to customers of the Department.