Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the languages in which his Department's telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department's messages include a version in the Irish language. [11894/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that pursuant to the scheme prepared by my Department under Section 11 of the Official Languages Act 2003 my Department is committed to providing a range of services through the medium of Irish and through the medium of Irish and English. Under this scheme, my Department has given an undertaking that all prerecorded oral announcements to our customers will be in both the English and Irish languages by the end of the life of the scheme, which is June 2009. It is expected that this objective will in fact have substantially been achieved by the end of this year.