Results 1-12 of 12 for ("irish language" gaeilge) speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...or in part, situated in a Limistéar Pleanála Teanga Gaeltachta or a Baile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta within the Gaeltacht, have regard to— (i) the protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, (ii) any relevant Language Plan agreed pursuant to Acht na Gaeltachta...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(viii) where the settlement or part of the settlement to which the proposed plan relates includes a Gaeltacht Service Town outside the Gaeltacht or an Irish Language Network, Foras na Gaeilge, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, and any relevant Language Planning Officer,”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...within its region and the strengthening the use of Irish therein.”. This cluster of amendments, while somewhat lengthy in the text, relates to strengthening the recognition of and attention to the Irish language, the Gaeltacht and Irish language service towns and networks within the regional spatial and economic strategies. We have had detailed discussion of related topics in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 242: In page 70, line 7, after “Gaeltacht” to insert “, the use of Irish within Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns and Irish Language Networks, their economic, social, and infrastructural development in coordination with Údarás na Gaeltachta or Foras na Gaeilge as appropriate, and support for the implementation of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 264: In page 77, line 23, after “Gaeltacht,” to insert the following: “the use of Irish within Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, Gaeltacht Service Towns and Irish Language Networks, their economic, social, and infrastructural development in coordination with Údarás na Gaeltachta or Foras na Gaeilge as appropriate, and support for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 194: In page 65, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(g) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta, in Bailte...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 158: In page 61, between line 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(g) protection of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities including the promotion of Irish as the community language, specifically by supporting the implementation of language plans in Limistéir Phleanála Teanga Ghaeltachta, in Bailte...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...a significant effort by organisations, many of which the Minister knows, including Conradh na Gaeilge, to ensure a Bill that was in real terms blind to the interaction of the planning system and Irish-language speakers and communities would be addressed. Much of our discussion concerns issues those organisations have rightly asked us to include. I made the point yesterday that part of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...assess. This is the whole point, and this is why folks like Conradh na Gaeilge have put so much effort into encouraging the submission of so many amendments. Supporting, encouraging and developing Irish language-speaking communities is not just a matter of language policy, and the encouragement of language policy or education. It is also a matter of physical planning, and of what gets...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to the full cluster of amendments because there are a lot of shared amendments here. I will take a step back for a moment. Folks who are professional planners, but for whom the Irish language is not a part of their daily life, are sometimes surprised when we table these amendments or have this discussion. They think of this as a planning Bill and ask why we are spending so...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...absolutely necessary if we are going to avoid another Carrickmines. They are not there and they should be. Earlier, my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, mentioned the very significant omissions of aspects in relation to Gaeltachtaí and the Irish language. Conradh na Gaeilge has been in touch and we will bring amendments with respect to that. While they might be small issues,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...- and English-language titles are provided for. The point here is more important than that. There has been a long-standing practice where important public institutions are referred to by their Irish-language titles in everyday speech, even by those of us who are exclusive English speakers, and this has never caused us any problem. I mentioned Uisce Éireann, An Bord Pleanála...