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Enacted Seanad
No. 24 of 2002

Official Languages Bill 2002

Public bill · Government · Presented

Would give people the right to deal with public bodies and receive services in either Irish or English, with both languages used in parliamentary proceedings, laws, courts, official documents, signs and advertisements. It would require public bodies to set out and deliver Irish-language services, and create an independent Official Languages Commissioner to monitor compliance, investigate complaints and report publicly.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to promote the use of the Irish language for official purposes in the State; to provide for the use of both official languages of the State in parliamentary proceedings, in Acts of the Oireachtas, in the administration of Justice, in communicating with or providing services to the public and in carrying out the work of public bodies; to set out the duties of such bodies with respect to the official languages of the State, and for those purposes, to provide for the establishment of the Office of the Official Languages Commissioner and to define its functions; to provide for the publication by the Commissioner of certain information relevant to the purposes of this Act; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Official Languages Bill 2002 [ Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil ] : Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Official Languages Bill 2002 [ Seanad ] : Report and Final Stages.
    Dáil
  • Official Languages Bill 2002 [Seanad]: Committee Stage.
    SELECT COMMITTEE ON ARTS, SPORT, TOURISM, COMMUNITY, RURAL AND GAELTACHT AFFAIRS
  • Official Languages Bill 2002 [ Seanad ] : Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Official Languages Bill 2002 [ Seanad ] : Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Official Languages Bill 2002: Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Official Languages Bill 2002: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Official Languages Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Official Languages (Equality) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
    Seanad
  • Official Languages (Equality) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed). SECTION 9.
    Seanad
  • Official Languages (Equality) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed). SECTION 12.
    Seanad
  • Official Languages (Equality) Bill 2002: Committee Stage. SECTION 1.
    Seanad
  • Official Languages (Equality) Bill, 2002: Motion.
    Seanad
  • Order of Business. - Official Languages (Equality) Bill, 2002: Order for Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Order of Business. - Official Languages (Equality) Bill, 2002: Second Stage.
    Seanad

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