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Irish Language Legislation

Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure - Minutes of Evidence - Irish Language Legislation

A summary of proposed funding changes for the Irish language voluntary sector: recent developments

This paper summarises developments so far in the proposed changes to the way in which the Irish language voluntary sector is funded by Foras na Gaeilge. The roles of the various organisations involved in these developments is described, and Annexe 2 provides a commentary on some of the contextual differences of the Irish language in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Assembly Committee Explores the Power of Language

The Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure took to the road this summer with a series of visits to language centres to see what local communities are doing to promote Irish and Ulster-Scots.

Sign Language Legislation: Translation costs and enforcement mechanisms

In response to a Communities Committee information request, this briefing note outlines the enforcement and compliance mechanisms in the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 and Welsh translation cost considerations under the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill 2025.

The Executive Office: Appointment of the Director and Five Other Members of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression; the Irish Language Commissioner and the Commissioner for the Ulster Scots and the Ulster British Tradition.

The Executive Office: Appointment of the Director and Five Other Members of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression; the Irish Language Commissioner and the Commissioner for the Ulster Scots and the Ulster British Tradition.

Legislation and policy on sign language in the UK and Ireland

Sign languages are generally separate from the spoken languages of the surrounding hearing communities; different sign languages are also largely mutually unintelligible. Hence, there is very little similarity between, for example, British Sign Language, Irish Sign Language and American Sign Language. This briefing paper considers the current legislation and policy on sign language in the UK and Ireland.

Sign Language at the Assembly

Speaker Marks Irish Language Week for the First Time in Parliament Buildings

Sign Language Bill

Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure- Review of the Ministerial Advisory Group Ulster-Scots Academy and Plans for an Ulster-Scots Academy and an Irish Language Academy

13 February 2014

During the meeting the Committee received briefings by representatives of Irish Language organisations in Northern Ireland on the new funding model.

Provision of Sign Language Interpretation Services Project BR-073-2022

Live sign language for Executive Office Question Time gets underway

Report on the Sign Language Bill

Sign Language Interpretation of Plenary and Committee Business

FOI 35-21: Cost of all diversity, inclusion, equality and consent classes, workshops or programmes run by the Northern Irish assembly since January 2018

A request for information to provide a list and cost of all diversity, inclusion, equality and consent classes, workshops or programmes run by the Northern Irish assembly since January 2018

APN 45 – 11/15: British-Irish Council Indigenous, Minority And Lesser-Used Languages Ministerial Meeting

APNs inform members and secretariat staff of any developments.

“A Milestone for Equality”: Assembly Committee Concludes Landmark Scrutiny of Sign Language Bill

13 November 2014

The Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure met on Thursday 13 November 2014 at 10.00am in Room 30, Parliament Buildings when it was briefed by departmental officials on the sign language review. The Committee will also received a briefing from representatives of Belfast City Council on its Inquiry into Inclusion in the Arts of Working Class Communities. Finally there will be a briefing from the Irish Lawn Bowls Association.

Assembly to introduce live sign language for Executive Office Question Time