[lg policy] N.I. Agriculture Officials Flagged-Up Language Obligations to DUP Minister

[Harold Schiffman]

 N.I. Agriculture Officials Flagged-Up Language Obligations to DUP Minister
20th March 2018
[image: Northern Ireland Fisheries Patrol Vessel (FPV) when under the name
of Banríon Uladh which was changed to Queen of Ulster.] Northern Ireland
Fisheries Patrol Vessel (FPV) when under the name of Banríon Uladh which
was changed to Queen of Ulster. Photo: The Irish News - twitter
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#Fisheries <https://afloat.ie/port-news/fishing> - The Irish News writes
<http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/03/19/news/agriculture-officials-flagged-up-language-obligations-to-dup-minister-1281386/?param=ds441rif44T>
that a former DUP minister was told by officials of her department’s
obligation to recognise Irish and Ulster-Scots months after she claimed it
had adopted “single language policy”.

Details emerged after the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural
Affairs (DAERA) was forced to provide documents, including a copy of its
draft language policy, to the Committee on the Administration of Justice
(CAJ).

The documents reveal that officials reminded Michelle McIlveen of her
department’s obligations to minority languages under its own equality
scheme and the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages.

Ms McIlveen controversially ordered the name of a fisheries protection
vessel to be changed from the Irish Banríon Uladh to its English language
version Queen of Ulster in 2016.

The boat was originally named by then Sinn Féin agriculture minister
Michelle Gildernew after it was bought in 2010.

For further reading on the vessel naming saga, click here.
<http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/03/19/news/agriculture-officials-flagged-up-language-obligations-to-dup-minister-1281386/?param=ds441rif44T>


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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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