Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 622: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 cannot receive correspondence from her Department in an Irish language script; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29351/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Since 2006 all letters addressed to the person concerned have issued with Irish name and address in conformity with his request. All correspondence received from the person concerned has been in English and all responses from the Department have also been in English. However if he wishes to correspond with the Department through the medium of Irish we are happy to respond on that basis also. The person concerned is not currently in receipt of a payment from the Department having refused to collect his payments from the post office.