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28 million GBP a year seems pretty small, budget-wise. How much is that per capita?

£5.27 (~7.86 USD)per Scottish resident, or £488 (607.78 USD) per resident speaker of Gaelic, if you go by Wikipedia’s population statistics.

[Edit: or, if you go by the article’s 11000 active speakers number, £2545, 3170 USD]

The Scottish budget is £34B. So Scotland is spending 0.08% of their budget on Gaelic education, which seems pretty inconsequential.

Worth noting that the budget for "Gaelic" is part of education, ie 24m or so is spent on standard schooling which happens to be done in Gaelic

So, do you feel that the money has been misappropriated? I mean, should it have been spent differently (for the same cause)?

I am asking because I understand the issue that you feel regarding spending the money but do you think that it should not have been spent in this cause at all?

How much do they spend on Scots? It seems odd to teach the south eastern half of the population Gaelic, if their ancestral language is Scots.