Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach

2:00 am

Patricia Stephenson (Social Democrats)
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I will ask about another matter in my last few seconds. We talked about language. We have seen incidents of the Executive in the North blocking funding for the Irish language. What are the engagements with the shared island unit like regarding those trickier issues where it is committed to funding a certain thing but it is not being seen? Casement Park was another high-profile example of that. How do those engagements work? What are the blockages?