The Thatcher government increased the funding for Gaelic broadcasting, largely because of Scottish Secretary George Younger's personal enthusiasm for the Gaelic community. With the funding the BBC were able to produce a small number of children's Gaelic programmes during term-time starting in October 1985, with , and "Bzzz". BBC One Scotland broadcast the programmes in the morning usually before "Children's BBC" at 10:1010:30am, before moving to 9:45am in October 1986 as part of new BBC Daytime line up. Since then, the timeslots have varied for children's Gaelic programmes during the daytime hours varying from around 9am – 2pm on BBC One Scotland between 1987 and 1995, From October 1995, The new timeslots were mostly in the mid-afternoon (3pm – 3:30pm from October 1995 - June 1998 and subsequently 2:55pm – 3:25pm from January 1999 - June 2002) with an occasional lunchtime slot at around 12 - 1pm (12:05pm – 12:30pm from February 1996 - May 1996 and again in January - March 1997, 12:25pm – 12:50pm from October - December 1998 and 12:30pm – 1pm from February - June 1999 and briefly in November 2001). The BBC introduced a new two-hour Thursday evening Gaelic block on BBC Two Scotland in September 1993, including , Gaelic comedy, documentaries, music, and current affairs . The programming block has continued until April 2011, virtually all the programmes were moved to BBC ALBA following the completion of the digital switchover with the exception of Children's Gaelic programmes which continued to be broadcast on weekday mornings during CBeebies until March 2013 and the long-running current affairs programme Eòrpa until January 2019. Eòrpa is currently being repeated on BBC Parliament on Saturday nights.