Gaelic

HC Deb 22 March 1994 vol 240 c151W

Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what are the total sums spent on promoting Irish Gaelic in each of the last 15 years.

	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93
Central community relations unit	—	—	—	—	88,065	282,050	523,000	363,000
Belfast action team initiative	—	—	1,000	2,219	89,204	27,343	46,400	38,400
ACE programme	64,002	140,830	187,274	290,855	315,175	273,867	146,500	285,000
NIO (prison education)	22,294	34,618	29,400	31,582	37,044	29,883	61,500	50,000
Arts Council for NI	2,000	4,000	5,000	5,000	19,000	14,700	33,600	33,600
1Origin of place names project	—	—	47,230	100,000	121,000	—	—	—
	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total	88,296	179,448	269,904	429,656	669,488	627,843	811,000	770,000
1 From April 1990 responsibility for the origin of placement project was transferred from the Department of the Environment to CCRU. Expenditure from 1990–91 is included in the CCRU figure.

These figures exclude Department of Education funding for the teaching of or through Irish.