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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, talked about the Welsh speaking of Welsh as ““our language”” even if they could not speak it themselves, but that points to the fact that Welsh is the adjective from Wales, whereas Gaelic is not the adjective from Scotland in any sense of that expression. There might be an inaccuracy, at least in this amendment, in that it does not refer to Scottish Gaelic, because, as has been said, there is Gaelic in Ulster and of course in the Republic of Ireland. Indeed, I think Welsh itself is probably a branch of Gaelic—it is certainly a Celtic language. The other point is that the amendment suggests that, "““a Gaelic version of the question is also to appear””." I submit that ““a Gaelic version”” leaves very open the question of exactly how it would be expressed. That is not particularly satisfactory. It might also be required to specify that a person who wishes to use that question as his information should also have to answer it in Gaelic.