Written answers

Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Irish Language

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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1077. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of language support packs that have been issued to families for each year since the introduction of the family language support programme to date by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11968/18]

Photo of Joe McHughJoe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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To date, 6,603 language support packages have been distributed since the introduction of the measure in 2012 at a total cost, to date, of €153,136.10. A breakdown per county is as follows:

County2012/2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 to date
Antrim 62 20 33 17 3
Armagh 8 10 5 7
Carlow 9 9 4 14 2
Cavan 1 14 7 9 2
Clare 5 15 39 20 13
Cork 56 105 134 180 49
Derry 18 11 13 7 1
Donegal 29 34 103 71 76
Down 5 2 11 5 -
Dublin City and County170 360 325 287 51
Fermanagh 3 0 0 1
Galway 115 102 91 73 12
Kerry 64 45 60 47 8
Kildare 31 46 31 72 15
Kilkenny 1 8 2 11 4
Laois 4 5 7 40 3
Leitrim 1 0 1 4 2
Limerick 11 32 36 36 53
Longford 1 1 0 2 -
Louth 20 10 14 19 4
Mayo 21 67 26 33 13
Meath 43 42 54 43 4
Monaghan 3 4 3 3 10
Offaly 8 6 2 4
Roscommon 2 8 2 7 3
Sligo 1 11 4 8 3
Tipperary 6 9 16 9 14
Tyrone 10 8 9 13
Waterford 7 22 21 19 4
Westmeath 2 15 3 10 5
Wexford 11 16 16 9 -
Wicklow 8 41 96 50 4
Overseas 24 22 18 8 -
Total 1,955752 1,102 1,198 1,136 362
Estimated cost €91,321 €34,930 €11,000 €15,885.10

No breakdown is available by County for these years.

From 2016 to date

Postage costs are not included.

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