Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the importance of co-ordination in all of this. A common complaint at the committee is that different Departments and organisations often work in silos but there is great energy in collaboration.

In the funding allocated to different streams, the Irish language receives €79,000 of €2 million, which is approximately 3%, and while I understand Creative Ireland does not want to be prescriptive about what is achieved through certain funding and organisations, the State has a 20 year strategy for the Irish language, which is within one or two generations of dying as a community language. That would be a shocking shame. As a result there needs to be a co-ordination element in ensuring it is part of the normal funding and development in all aspects of the Department.