Irish-medium education
89.—(1) It shall be the duty of the Department to encourage and facilitate the development of Irish-medium education.
(2) The Department may, subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, pay grants to any body appearing to the Deparmtent to have as an objective the encouragement or promotion of Irish-medium education.
(3) The approval of the Department to a proposal under article 14 of the 1986 Order to establish a new Irish speaking voluntary school may be granted upon such terms and conditions as the Department may determine.
(4) In this article “Irish-medium education” means education provided in an Irish speaking school.
(5) Article 35(2) of the 1989 Order applies for the purposes of this Article as it applies for the purposes of Part III of that Order.