Suggestions for amendments to the Official Languages Act published

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As Chairman, I would like to thank the Joint Committee for your invitation to come to present today. My Office was established by legislation nearly 10 years ago and were three of us on separate statutory tasks: act as an ombudsman service; acting as a compliance agency in relation to state services through Irish; providing advice in relation to language rights and duties. It was the annual report for 2012 of the Office of State for the Gaeltacht Minister on 31 January 2013 laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and was officially launched on March 12 last. In general, 2012 was an excellent year for the promotion of Irish in the state of the country, and a shadow was one step forward, seemed pair being backward. Ombudsman's role our ombudsman service, we dealt with 756 cases last year in connection with difficulties or problems post code finder with state services through Irish - the largest year were complaints from the public at the Office post code finder since its inception. This was an increase of 3% in the number of cases it was the previous post code finder year. The vast majority of cases were resolved post code finder through informal negotiations post code finder with the relevant public body or by advising the complainant. Address 13 formal investigations during 2012. The decision was a breach specific aspects post code finder of language legislation in the case of a combination of state organizations; These included the Garda Síochána and government departments.
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Irish President appointed the first computer post code finder users Language Commissioner on the advice of the Government and to support the Houses on 23 February 2004. He was reappointed in the same way is for a period of 6 years on the February 23, 2010.
Suggestions for amendments to the Official Languages Act published
Proactive in connection with the International Association of Language Commissioners to establish the world. Agency Compliance As a compliance agency, I regret to report that three quarters of the language schemes - statutory language plans - agreed by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with various state organizations let expire without renewing them be made by the end 2012 and a quarter of them are outdated for over 3 years. In 10 other cases, more than six years had elapsed since asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on state bodies to prepare draft language but were yet to be agreed. The failure of this aspect of language legislation promoting prudent and recognized by the independent audit committee in Office as a significant risk. The language schemes to be a mainstay in the heart of the legislation post code finder and the basis for the number and quality of state services through Irish. Promotion became a dangerous precedent for the first time in 2012 when the scheme was amended language to duty was then confirmed altogether albeit without any cost or trouble speaking it worth using for its implementation. Otherwise post code finder ensure adherence to duty was quite trivial post code finder - the "Fit for consideration" of labels video / dvds of the Irish Film Classification Office to be in bilingual format - prompted a complaint from a member post code finder of the public reported the disappearance of statutory commitments eventually surrendered when the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht your application from the Department of Justice and Equality and the commitment scheme was void all. The current year is a slight increase in the current post code finder year the number of language schemes - there are 15 confirmed to date only 20 extinct in the same period - but my main concern is the quality of some of these schemes. They are too numerous commitments with the provision of services through Irish conditional post code finder on 'available post code finder resources', which implies that these services are seen as an optional extra rather than as objects of fundamental rights. In one of these schemes, and commitment to the provision of services through the medium setting, a condition is mentioned 11 times over 3 page that the services provided 'as resources permit'. In ei scheme