Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

We did that during Covid and we certainly pivoted supports into supporting mná tí, the coláistí samhraidh and the hallaí pobail.

An awful lot of really innovative work is ongoing in our Gaeltacht division in supporting parents and families, exactly as the Deputy said. Some of the language planning - I will ask Dr. Mac Cormaic to come in - takes a while. Sometimes, it does not happen as quickly as we might like. It takes a while to get it right because so much community engagement and involvement are involved.