Mr Patsy McGlone (Mid Ulster): To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the rational as to why his Department decided to end funding for the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, which has researched the origins and meanings of local place-names since 1987. [Priority Written]
Minister for Communities: My department did not make a decision to end funding for the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project. Funding provided by the Department of Finance to the Department for Communities did not include the transfer of baseline funding and ended in April 2026.
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