European Parliament
President.
Question No 6 by Seán Ó Neachtain 
Subject: The status of the Irish language
The Irish language becomes an official working language of the EU institutions on 1 January 2007.
Can the European Council make a comprehensive statement as to the preparations that have been put in place to guarantee that the EU institutions will have all the necessary systems in place so as to ensure that the Irish language becomes, in practice, an official working language of the European Union on 1 January next?

