Results 1-20 of 58 for ("irish language" gaeilge) speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...are usually in situ and are visible. They do not move, and the Irish placenames can be put on them. Also, if there are any speakers on them, you can press a button, A or B, to hear information in the Irish language or in English. It becomes a bit more complicated when you are dealing with advertising structures, especially rotating ones, but it can be a condition, because permission is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...this. Local authorities will obviously look at licences on a case-by-case basis anyway. This is trying to ensure that in some ways, they cannot avoid putting in place a condition relating to the Irish language. It can be tweaked. The Minister of State is correct that this is now law but this is trying to capture those who do not come under that provision so where the State can...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of rural areas is expanded to cover rural and Gaeltacht areas. Amendment No. 193 is again from Conradh na Gaelige and refers to: ... 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 Bailte Seirbhíse Gaeltachta...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The definition of "language plans" is to be found in the Irish language legislation. There is, therefore, a specific definition, so when we talk about "language plans", we are using a legal term rather than just a concept. This is worth looking at again. These are things to have regard to in the language plans. Some of the language plans might not be advanced enough to have any major...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and is presenting it as a bible, as I said before. It is presented as what planners will look at, what they will take and what they will tick-box, based on what they have to take into account. The Irish language and the Gaeltacht area, in particular, should form a very distinct and clear point of principle, in some ways, at the various levels. At this level, it is the statement itself....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Part of the reason for this proposal is the frustration of those who have tried to use Irish with the system. This came up in the Irish language committee when we were discussing planning in Gaeltacht areas. One of the questions we raised with the chief executive officers of the different councils that came before us was how many people in their planning sections had Irish. If I am in the...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...That is bizarre in this day and age in places where people are willing to live where there are some types of services. Traditional family grouping, or extended family grouping, was what sustained the Irish language for many years. There are different traditional settlements and there needs to be a recognition that they need to continue for the Irish language to survive. Not all the...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...legislation and that have a standing in law are taken fully into account. That should be a given. The problem is over the years it has not been a given. They have been set aside. Sometimes Irish language communities have had to go to court to ensure that their rights are protected or that due regard has been given to some of the written statements or some of the laws pertaining to the...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I want to comment on quite a few of my amendments in the grouping, particularly Nos. 322, 326, 332, 341 and 347. They relate to setting out obligations in the legislation to ensure Irish-language-speaking and Gaeltacht areas are considered and to the fore in making development plans. The amendments require insertions and many of them are self-explanatory. They provide that, where we are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... We can immediately guess the impact that would have on the day-to-day vernacular of the community. That is the danger and it cannot be overstated. The purpose of all the amendments to do with the Irish language that I and others have submitted is to find protections within planning laws for identified areas in which the Irish language is still strong enough to be the day-to-day...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and maybe five years from the date the Minister promised they would published. In the meantime, when the city and county managers came before the Oireachtas committee on Gaeilge, the Gaeltacht and the Irish language-speaking public, their excuse or reason for not having proper guidelines in their development plans was because they did not have guidelines. They were appealing to the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...that has been raging on the lack of planning guidelines. It is reflected in conversations I had with Conradh na Gaeilge in advance of and during the production of the report of my committee on the Irish language. The very people working in language planning should understand the role they have. We heard from representatives of various councils at the time of our deliberations. In a...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...is no need for an English title when that title is as Gaeilge. Section 9D(1) of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act states: "The name of a statutory body established, on and from the commencement of section 4of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021, shall be in the Irish language." Despite the commencement of the Act, numerous pieces of legislation have been tabled that have...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...exists but there is a need for them because we must specify the exact spelling and the order of the words. This is an opportunity to ensure that each of the bodies mentioned are specified in the Irish language, as intended by the Official Languages Act. Perhaps it is a hangover from previous legislation that it did not happen from the get-go. Part of my intention with the amendments...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...níos mó, más gá. Aontaím leis an méid a dúirt an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh agus an Teachta Ó Broin. It is difficult when trying to deal with different concepts, in some ways, because of the Irish language part. I understand the understand the role of the Bills Office, so I am not criticising, but it means the debate is a bit disjointed. I will...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the Official Languages Act. When we started drafting this legislation way back in the past, the Act had not taken all its legal steps. As far as I know, all aspects of the Act have now passed. The proper way for any future legislation is to give the official Irish language title of State bodies, not the one which is referenced as "also in the English language". That is the intention...

An Comhaontas Cuimsitheach Eacnamaíoch agus Trádála agus an tionchar ar an nGaeilge, ar an nGaeltacht agus ar Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge: Motion (11 May 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tairgim: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community entitled "An Comhaontas Cuimsitheach Eacnamaíoch agus Trádála agus an tionchar a bheadh aige ar an nGaeilge, ar an nGaeltacht agus ar Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...áil leis an Údarás um Ard-Oideachas. Sa chás seo táimid ag rá arís gur gá don rannóg seo an leagan Gaeilge den teideal oifigiúil a úsáid as seo amach, mar atá leagtha síos sa dlí. It has been a requirement in law since the enactment of the Official Languages Act that any new State institution or body that is...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (9 May 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the service it is intended to deliver in the Gaeltacht area without transgressing on the language rights of those in that area. That cannot be done at the moment because there is not, according to Coimisinéir an Gharda Síochána, enough gardaí with sufficient fluency in the Irish language. The intention of this amendment and amendments Nos. 7 and 33, which are related...