Department of Education spent only £1,000 producing material in Irish
Only a thousand pounds was spent by the Department of Education producing material in Irish over the past three years, it's emerged.
In one of those years, 2018/19, the total expenditure was only £36.
Education Minister Peter Weir outlined the spending details in response to the TUV MLA Jim Allister who asked how much the Department of Education spent "producing material in Irish".
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Hide AdMr. Weir said that in each of the last three complete financial years the expenditure had been as follows: 2017/18 - £524.44; 2018/19 - £36.35; and in 2019/20 - £482.56.
In total £1043.35 was spent by DE.