are services/utility provider obliged to provide bills in irish?

lifeandtimes

hey,

A quick question, an Irish based utility company have confirmed to me that they no longer provide their bills in Irish any longer.

Previously they did and the agent i was speaking too didn't know why.

Are Irish based utilities obliged to provide bills in Irish for native Irish speakers?

MarkR

If they aren't a state agency, I'd say not.

whomitconcerns

surely the numbers look the same regardless?

GM228

lifeandtimes wrote: »

Are Irish based utilities obliged to provide bills in Irish for native Irish speakers?

No they are not obliged to provide bills in Irish.

If they are covered by the Official Languages Act then only the following are obliged to be in both languages.

• any document setting out public policy proposals;
  
• any annual report;
  
• any audited account or financial statement;
  
• any statement of strategy required to be prepared under section 5 of the Public Service Management Act 1997

Only the headings of stationary for public bodies must be in Irish or Irish and English:-

• notepaper;
  
• compliment slips;
  
• facsimile cover sheets;
  
• file covers and other folders;
  
• labels;
  
• envelopes.

Also if they come under the act and you write to them in Irish then they must write back to you in Irish.

coylemj

What's the Irish for kWh?

johnnyskeleton

coylemj wrote: »

What's the Irish for kWh?

Mile bhait, or mbt?

Fred Swanson

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Losty Dublin

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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That could be the next move for Right2Water :pac:

Esel

Losty Dublin wrote: »

That could be the next move for Right2Water :pac:

Ní aontaíom!