The Minister for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs has defended provisions in the Official Languages Act 2003 that requires public bodies to provide Irish translations of some official documents.
Éamon Ó Cuív said that the cost of such translations was only a percentage of the cost of the reports themselves.
He said it was not true to say that Irish speakers gained little benefit from having such documents available in Irish.
The minister was speaking during a debate in the Dáil on the Official Languages Act.
A Government motion for more public bodies to come under the terms of the act is also being discussed today.
