Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 April 2004
174 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the circumstances in which, in accordance with Article 8(3) of the Constitution, provision by law is made for only one of the official languages of the State to be exclusively used in public business. [11620/04]
View answerI have no responsibility for the entirety of legislation enacted since the adoption by the people of the Constitution and still on the Statute Book and no responsibility for the provision of legal advice on the interpretation of any Act or any particular legislative provision. The circumstances in which any particular Act addresses any specific matter under the Constitution would be set out in the Act concerned, or otherwise in the explanatory memorandum accompanying a Bill, or in speeches made in that regard by the sponsoring Minister for the record in this House or in the Seanad. The procedures by which legislation is processed by the Houses are set out in Standing Orders and in the Constitution itself and I have no ministerial responsibility in that regard.
