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Councillors have approved a language strategy action plan for Belfast, after a "positive" public consultation, a City Hall committee has been told.
The report adds: “A number of respondents voiced the opinion that any services or proposed actions that aim to promote Irish should also be rolled out for Ulster Scots. One respondent felt that this would promote 'parity of esteem', and that any work around bilingual Irish/English branding should be replicated to create an equivalent Ulster Scots branding, or for the logo to include English, Irish and Ulster Scots.
The council’s City Solicitor Nora Largey told the recent S,P & R committee: “The action plan was proposed to implement the language strategy from 2018. Unfortunately due to Covid we weren’t able to progress a detailed action plan in relation to the language strategy, but we have now been able to undertake a comprehensive review of potential access to services, how we can improve the disability of language etcetera.
She added: “The action plan was amended on foot of the consultation process. There were some things taken out because we felt they should be the focus of the action plan - they were relating to teaching and writing competitions. Another council report on the results of the language strategy consultation states: “A number of themes appeared consistently throughout the responses: a concern over the cost of these actions, the need for the council to do more for ethnic minority communities, deaf and disabled people, and the need for more actions in relation to the promotion of Irish and Ulster Scots.
An amendment for the draft Irish Language Policy accepted by the full council in March states: “Belfast City Council will adopt a new bilingual corporate identity and the bilingual logo will become the new, proactive, de-facto council logo to be used comprehensively across all corporate branding.
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