Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Review of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025
2:00 am
Mr. Brian Kehoe:
I echo that. It was said earlier that we have a huge reach in terms of our involvement in communities. I do not think there is a community in which we are not involved. There is a resource there. We are happy to be very much involved in the policy but, more importantly, in the delivery of what flows out of the policy because we can lose sight of policy and focus on programmes. This is an opportunity to take a step back, see what the policy is about first and foremost and then look at whether we have programmes that are fit to deliver on those policies. That is important. Like Ms Earley said, we have been in this business for 30 years. We have learned a bit along the way. There is a lot of know-how and expertise in local development companies that can be tapped into in the delivery of this policy.
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