Ms Katherine Licken:

An Foras Teanga is doing very valuable work in terms of promoting the Irish language throughout the country. We also have Waterways Ireland, which is developing the canals across the Border and in Dublin. I will give a list of the type of thing Foras na Gaeilge is doing. It is developing bilingual information packs for community centres and public services, signage packs for service providers in language planning areas and in Gaeltacht service towns and Irish language networks. It is transcribing additional spoken material and creating dictionaries, awareness packs, a communications campaign to increase public awareness with regard to the role, vision and work of the agency and signage for Irish language and Gaeltacht areas. It is also overseeing Bliain na Gaeilge this year and we have provided it with €450,000 for this.