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The proposals for the development of Gaelic are imaginative—a language centre, a Gaelic teaching programme and the expansion of the Royal National Mod to include representatives from other Celtic countries.
Or not, as the case may be.The basic recommendation is to take a wider look at the budget, consider appropriate need indicators for the particular programmes and find out whether the balance of the spending programmes makes sense.
What is needed is a clear commitment to the whole strategy and a more balanced programme of implementation.We now seek a commitment to developing the £247 million modern transport system strategy as a whole.