Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Official Report
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“The National Gaelic Language Plan 2012-17”
The next item of business is consideration of motion S4M-01610, in the name of Stewart Maxwell, on the draft national Gaelic language plan 2012-2017.
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The Education and Culture Committee took oral evidence on the draft national Gaelic language plan 2012 to 2017 on 6 December and received further written evidence from the Bòrd na Gàidhlig shortly thereafter. After reviewing the evidence, the committee welcomed the publication of the draft plan in our report.
We noted that it is an ambitious plan that will require close partnership working between the bòrd and a number of bodies, and that there should be greater focus on the main priorities to ensure that targets are met. Subsequent to the report’s publication, and given the very short time available today to examine the matter, I approached the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Mike Russell, and the Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages, Alasdair Allan, to seek assurances that a full debate on the national Gaelic language plan 2012 to 2017 would take place in the new year. I am glad to inform members that ministers have given a commitment that such a debate will take place.
On behalf of the Education and Culture Committee, I move,
That the Parliament agrees that the Education and Culture Committee’s 3rd Report, 2011 (Session 4), The draft National Gaelic Language Plan 2012-17 (SP Paper 52) should form the Parliament’s response to Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s consultation on the draft plan.
The question on the motion will be put at decision time.