Results 1-6 of 6 for ("irish language" gaeilge) speaker:Pauline Tully

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (18 Apr 2024)

Pauline Tully: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions she is taking to overhaul Foras na Gaeilge as a funding mechanism for the Irish language sector, funding for which over the last number of years has stalled in comparison with funding in other areas in her portfolio, such as arts and heritage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17021/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...opportunities for all levels and work with schools, etc. In short, they have stood up to do a job the State has never been seriously interested in doing and has long forgone, that is, to reinstate Gaeilge as a spoken language of Ireland. Many people want more opportunities to speak the language and those who have Irish want opportunities and supports to bring up their children as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...Conradh na Gaeilge's reasonable and detailed plan, An Plean Fáis 2024-2029, which would have cost very little extra and would have begun to right the wrongs of decades of underfunding of the Irish language sector. It would have begun to finally bridge the gap between it and the arts and heritage sectors, for example, which enjoy many multiples of funding compared to the support given...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...you lose it. In the months coming up to the budget, 138 community organisations from around the country came together to formulate and propose to Government an ambitious new investment plan for the Irish language. They want to address the long-standing issues with funding, particularly the lack of support for groups doing the work on the ground. The proposals look to reverse...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge (5 Dec 2023)

Pauline Tully: ...because they need to be able to better provide Irish-speaking children a chance and a reason to use the language outside of the Gaelscoil. Funding for this work is provided through Foras na Gaeilge’s scéim forbartha líonraí Gaeilge scheme but since the pandemic, there has been a large pent-up demand for the reopening of the scheme. The Minister of State explained...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Pauline Tully: ...of the panel, effectively grinding the process to a halt once again. Another integral part of the Good Friday Agreement committed the British Government to taking resolute action to promote the Irish language and to seek to remove, where possible, restrictions that would discourage or work against the maintenance and development of the language. Further to these provisions, a specific...