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Thursday, 22 March 2018

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

An Foras Teanga

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a funding allocation for An Foras Teanga for both Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency from the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland materialised in 2017 and in 2018 in accordance with the budget share previously approved by the North-South Ministerial Council in view of the fact that the Northern Ireland Executive has not been in operation. [13353/18]

Photo of Joe McHughJoe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The agreed position in regard to budgets approved by the North South Ministerial Council is that Foras na Gaeilge is co-funded on the basis of 75% from my Department and 25% from the Department for Communities, while the Ulster-Scots Agency is co-funded on the basis of 25% from my Department and 75% from the Department for Communities.

I can confirm that the Department for Communities provided matched funding to Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency in 2017 in accordance with these agreed co-funding ratios and that this continues to be the position in 2018.

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