Written evidence from Risteard MacGabhann
There are many points that could be made in
support of continuing support for Northern Ireland's Irish Language
Broadcasting Fund, but the one I wish to highlight in these recessionary
times of declining employment opportunity, is the way in which
the ILBF, through its modest training and programme production
budgets, has created a real and remarkably productive dimension
to N. Ireland's media production capacity.
Viewed simply as an employment creation scheme,
it is readily justified. Of course, it is much more than that.
30 April 2009
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