asked the Minister for Health whether he is aware that there is not a single word of Irish printed on a death certificate issued by the General Register Office, Dublin, on the 24th November, 1950, in respect of a death which occurred in County Tipperary in the year 1926, and if he will arrange that henceforth all such certificates be at least bilingual.
- Bilingual Death Certificates.
I am aware that certificates issued by the General Register Office may be obtained on forms printed in either the Irish or the English language. The Irish form is used in respect of registrations which are wholly in Irish or where the use of a form in that language is requested. The printing of future supplies of certificate forms was under consideration recently and new forms which are now in course of printing will be bilingual.