Sinn Féin says the move would save £250,000 with the current process
Sinn Féin have proposed Belfast Council spends over £50,000 to put up Irish language street signs across the whole of the West Belfast Gaeltacht Quarter.
During Wednesday’s full meeting of Belfast City Council, a proposal by Sinn Féin Councillor Ronan McLaughlin to look at a bulk application was agreed unanimously at City Hall. He told the chamber: “We need to be innovative on how we do things in the council. I have been told we don’t have a data sharing agreement with the electoral office, which we need to be looking at.
He added: “We have applications for over 600, and quite a lot of them are within the Gaeltacht Quarter, a part of West Belfast that takes in a large proportion of the Irish language speaking community. There have been 110 streets done, and there are 330 streets left. Alliance Councillor Michael Long said: “I think it is regrettable that we have had a policy in place for six or seven months and we haven’t seen a single street sign going through that process yet. We were previously seeing five go through every month, so there are issues that need to be dealt with.”
He added: “One lady in particular has been contacted six times by the council asking for the same details, after correctly filling in the form in the first place. After twice being told she had given all the information she needed to submit. And then they contacted her again, and asked her again. It seems this process is an absolute shambles, and we need to rectify it as soon as possible.”
“Obviously until we get research and translation back, we are a bit hamstrung. In addition to that, there are a few issues about which we need some clarification from the committee, in terms of policy, that we will be bringing back next month.”
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