Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion
1:30 pm
Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
This comes under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills. I am happy to find out the number of extra Gaelscoileanna being built this year if the Deputy is asking the question.
The Deputy mentioned Bliain na Gaeilge and there has been a commitment to €530,000 in funding, a big percentage of which is being spent across a broad spectrum of areas. These include Beo: Gaelach agus Bródúil, the Electric Picnic programme of bespoke Irish language events, and Bliain na Gaeilge elements, with €50,000 dispersed in a round of funding and €75,000 distributed in the second part of Bliain na Gaeilge, launched in Glencomcille. I was part of that. There was a wide range of events. The councils have been very much involved as well. Even as recently as last Saturday, in the local resource centre of my parish, there were many different promotional activities.
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