Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Finance – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:00 pm on 9 April 2024.
Work on the commitment in the 'New Decade, New Approach' document focused on how future registrations might be made in Irish. Providing retrospective certificates in Irish would require careful legal and technical consideration and appropriate resources. The Department will consider how best to address those questions alongside its other ambitions to progress the use of Irish in the registration services that it provides.