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
Dr. Aodh?n Mac Cormaic:
Some of those issues will be resolved in the Gaeltacht planning guidelines, which are at an advanced stage. The Department of the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, is anxious to publish them as soon as possible. We had discussions just this week on them. I have also discussed issues around housing, and land use for affordable housing for Gaeltacht communities, with the new CEO of Údarás na Gaeltachta. That is a priority of his. He is new to the job. The board has a particular interest in that issue as well. We obviously have to fit in with national policy as well but it is very much on the radar for the údarás.