Gaelic in Scotland has experienced a so-called 'renaissance' from the early 1980s onwards. Gaelic-medium education and broadcasting have expanded significantly, and the public presence of the language has increased. These initiatives have involved substantial public expenditure (now some 23 million Euro annually). At the same time, corpus planning questions have been curiously neglected. There is no standardised pronunciation or grammar, orthographic standardisation is incomplete, lexicographic resources are patchy, and there has never been any Gaelic 'academy' or linguistic institute. Fortunately, and perhaps unusually, there is relatively little dialectal variety in Gaelic; and the orthographic and grammatical codifications developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries continue to provide some foundation. Nevertheless, there is an increasing disjuncture between the growing use of Gaelic in formal and official settings (most notably the new Scottish Parliament, which opened in 1999) and the inchoate state of corpus planning. The establishment in 2002 of a new central agency with responsibility for Gaelic development, Bòrd Gàidhlig na h-Alba (the Gaelic Language Board), may lead to progress in this area.