Debate contribution: Place-Name Project
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 19 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Place-Name Project
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5549585
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I thank the Member for her question. She will be aware that, following the announcement that the project was not going to continue, I intervened and engaged with Queen's University. The university has agreed that the project will continue, and I have committed that my Department will assume responsibility for funding it. The programme is important when it comes to the heritage of our local place names and the translation service.
It is really important that we ensure that a programme that is nearly 40 years old does not disappear, and that is why we have stepped in.
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