Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community

Foilsitheoireacht agus Léitheoireacht na Gaeilge: Plé (Atógáil)

Ms Sarah Bannan:

I will answer the second question first. The Bosca Leabharlainne is part of the Arts Council initiative of Laureate na nÓg which is run on our behalf by Children's Books Ireland and is generously supported by Foras na Gaeilge as well as by ourselves in the Arts Council. We support the Laureate na n-Óg initiative along with the reading resources which go along with it. The foras paid for the books. It worked very hard with Children's Books Ireland to come up with the funding package around it but it meant that it was not possible to cover the full complement of primary schools. They comprise Gaelscoileanna, schools in Gaeltacht areas and, as I recall, schools from designated disadvantaged areas. There were also those who made expressions of interest and there was an application process for it as well. If the committee would like - I am unsure as to how these things work - to answer the second question, I can provide the committee with very comprehensive material on that. Yes, this project is being evaluated as it goes forward and the ambition is that it would live beyond that time. We can follow up with more detailed information on it as I would not have all of those details to hand.

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