Short Life Working Group on Economic and Social Opportunities for Gaelic: report

Annex 1 Group's Remit from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy

The presumption for this group is that the relationship between Gaelic and social and economic initiatives should be mutually beneficial.

The focus of this group will be to strengthen Gaelic by means of a focus on economic opportunities and to strengthen the economy by making the most of Gaelic opportunities.

In order to do this the group will want to discuss and have a sense of what Gaelic initiatives have been put in place that produce positive social and economic benefits and what wider initiatives have been put in place that have the potential to have a positive impact on Gaelic.

In doing this, the group will want to ask what is the potential to expand on these opportunities, to introduce improvements and build on what is currently in place.

The group will also want to consider what levers and budgets are in place to make progress with these things.

The group will also want to focus on new opportunities, gaps, opportunities that are being missed.

The group will also need to consider recommendations and where these recommendations should be directed. The recommendations will be published.

The timeline for the group's work will be six meetings, one meeting every month, with recommendations submitted to ministers in Autumn 2022.