Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

National Strategy and Framework for Higher Education: Higher Education Authority

1:00 pm

Mr. Fergal Costello:

What we have done in the past is to delegate specific funding to institutions to help them maintain an infrastructure for the support of both the teaching of Irish in terms of students and also more generally in terms of conversation. We continue to do that and to get reports on that. I would be happy to get the detailed information and provide it to the committee. The funding is not massive. Unfortunately, we do not have a great deal of funding, but if we were not able to specifically ring-fence and earmark it, it might fall even further. We are trying to continue to support the Irish language in that way.