The purpose of amendment 14 is to implement a recommendation in the Education Committee's stage 1 report, which was based on the evidence that the committee received, primarily from Bòrd na Gàidhlig, about the need to address the status of the Gaelic language.As the minister said in his evidence to the committee at stage 1, the Gaelic language is already, de facto, an official language, in the sense that Government publications and other official publications are very often published in the Gaelic language.