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Minister of State Chambers Announces Language Plan for the East Galway City Planning Area
From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
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From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
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Minister of State for the Gaeltacht and Sport, Jack Chambers T.D., has announced today that he has approved a language plan under the language planning process for the East Galway City Planning Area. A yearly allowance of €100,000 will be provided under the process to support a language plan in the area.
This will enable the East Galway City Language Planning Committee An Bruach Thoir to employ a Language Planning Officer to help with the implementation of the the language plan for the area.
Approving the plan today, Minister of State Chambers said: “As a result of the approval of the East Galway City language plan under the language planning process, the plan will be implemented without too much delay. The Language Planning Comittee will be able to employ a Language Planning Officer to implement the plan in the area. This is a huge step foward for the area and for the language planning process in Galway. I am certain that the area’s community will benefit from the significant annual funding that will be provided for the next seven years to aid the successful implementation of the plan. I would like to congratulate the Language Planning Committee of An Bruach Thoir on all the work they have done to date to reach this point and I wish them every success with the implementation of the plan in the next phase”.
The approval of the plan is in accordance with the committment given to the Language Planning Process under action 2.1 and 2.3 of the 2018-2022 Action Plan.
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Notes for the Editor:
• Of the 26 Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas, 21 plans are approved to date, including the East Galway City Language Plan. The Department is currently reviewing 4 plans and there is one remaining plan which is yet to be submitted to the Department.
• There are 22 Language Planning Officers employed in the Areas (18 Language Planning Officers, 4 Assistant Language Planning Officers)
• Two Gaeltacht Service Towns have been approved - An Daingean & Letterkenny. One Officer is employed in the Letterkenny Gaeltacht Service Town.
• The Department is currently examining the Galway City and Dunglow language plan and language plans are currently being prepared in 5 of the towns - Castlebar, Cahersiveen, Cork, Dungarvan and Tralee.
• 3 Irish Language Networks have been approved under the process up to now - Ennis, Lough Rea and Clondalkin.