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PROPOSALS FOR major cuts to community and Gaeltacht programmes were withheld from the public when the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs’ submission to Colm McCarthy’s “An Bord Snip Nua” group was published, it has emerged.

The department’s recommendations for cuts were recently published on the Department of Finance website, but several sections of text were withheld.