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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Míle buíochas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a wealth of manuscripts, especially Gaelic manuscripts, most of which, in truth, would be invisible to 99% of the population. Only those who seek out those particular documents and who have the language skills would get an opportunity to understand the light they shed on the lives of the everyday individuals and government structures at that time. How do we open the door and make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: In regard to digital access, if a person had the particular skill sets would he or she be able to digitally access the documents mentioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Professor McCafferty mentioned collective memory, which is one of the most important aspects of this. There is also a commercial aspect to this to a certain extent. Earlier we discussed county museums and local access to documents. It strikes me that the Book of Kells is in Trinity College and not Kells.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: This is not about Kells per sebecause it is not even in my constituency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that Trinity College is, in many ways, the best location for the manuscript. There are four volumes to that particular manuscript. Were there a safe, climatically controlled space within Kells, a volume on loan could be provided by Trinity College which would allow local access. Trinity College makes millions of euro per annum from access to that particular document. I accept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: As I understand it, it is difficult to obtain a full census picture for the State pre-1900. In other words, a good chunk of those censuses was part of what was destroyed in the Four Courts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Professor McCafferty mentioned that a great deal of work had been done to fill in those gaps. I imagine there would be other reflective documents that would shine light into that empty space. Will we reach a point when we might be able to get access to much more information on family history, for example, who one's family was and what situation they might have been in in the 1850s, 1860s...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Is there anything that we as a committee can do for the Irish Manuscripts Commission and for Professor McCafferty's objectives for his tenure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: If it were possible, it might be interesting for us as a committee to pay a visit and have a look at some of those documents. That would be a real buzz for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank Professor John McCafferty very much for coming here today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We wish him great luck in his role.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Manuscripts Commission: Chairperson Designate (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I propose that we suspend for a few minutes before resuming in private session. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 110. To ask the Taoiseach the annual Exchequer funding provided to the Director of Public Prosecutions in each of the past ten years and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [38446/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaelscoil Issues (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department carried out a study on the establishment of a support centre within his Department to enable the transition of English medium schools to Irish medium schools; if he will provide the results of such a study; if there is an established protocol within his Department for such a procedure; if he will make these guidelines...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeltachta (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an mbeidh an clár dátheangach um Thacaíocht Naisc (Droichead) á chur ar fáil d’iar-bhunscoileanna gaeltachta ar bhonn píolótach; más rud é go mbeidh, cathain a chuirfear ar fáil é; cá mhéad scoil a bhfuil an roinn ag súil leis go mbeidh siad páirteach sa...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas Gaeltachta (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ag an rialtas maidir le háiteanna a sholáthar do 30 múinteoir iar-bhunscoile breise in aghaidh na bliana ó 2018/2019 mar atá leagtha amach sa pholasaí don oideachas gaeltachta; cén soláthraí OTM atá roghnaithe acu leis na háiteanna a chur ar...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oideachas trí Ghaeilge (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén toradh a bhí ar an scéim phíolótach páirt-tumoideachais a luaitear i dtuarascáil bhliantúil de chuid a roinne a foilsíodh sa bhliain 2015; an bhfuil sé ar intinn ag an roinn an scéim sin a leathnú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [39249/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (20 Sep 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 359. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ós rud é go bhfuil an spriocdháta a gealladh i gceist pharlaiminte roimhe seo (Ceist 23977/17) sáraithe, cathain a fhoilseofar an plean gníomhaíochta maidir leis an Straitéis 20 Bliain don tréimhse 2017-2022. [39242/17]