Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands

Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge: An Roinn Leanaí agus Gnóthaí Óige

4:00 pm

Mr. Paul Fay:

I will be happy to take that. We are in the very early days of that, Chairman. The overall monitoring group for the action plan met for the first time in Killarney a few weeks ago following the formal launch of the plan, and we are convening our first meeting of the early years plan. There has been no material progress on any of those actions. We are at the start of that process. What we have done as to the two posts that the Chairman mentions is critical to bringing a focus and a strategic direction to implementing all of the actions. We have secured the funding in the Estimates for that. We are working on the job specifications in conjunction with our colleagues in the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to ensure that we get that right. In the past, we, Tusla and Better Start - the quality development agency - have all had trouble of one degree or another recruiting people with Gaeilge. We are at the very beginning of that process. A number of things were mentioned around parents and if there had been any progress on this-----

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