Why waste money on paper when documents could be made freely available on internet?

IT WAS interesting to note your report (October 15) with regard to the waste of public money in the translation of public documents into Irish.

Surely the waste is that any such documents are being published in paper format at all when they could be made available on the internet for all to see free of charge and without any cost to the environment?

It would be preferable if all public documents were bilingual, with Irish side by side with English so that people could make their own choice as to which language they read it in. In the interests of equality, documents should also be available in other minority languages, such a Polish, so as to be accessible to as many of its citizens as possible. And again in the interests of equality, if documents are to be published in paper format, they should be in braille for people with a visual impairment and Easy Read versions for people with a learning disability of literacy needs.