Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an enhanced redundancy package application will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47037/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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There were 51 Local Development Companies (LDCs) contracted, on my Department's behalf, to deliver the Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP), with 36 of these also delivering the LEADER elements of the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (RDP) throughout the country. One of these companies, Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta (MFG), the group contracted by my Department to deliver Axes 3 & 4 (LEADER) of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in Gaeltacht Areas, went into liquidation on 7 September 2011. The LDCs, including MFG, are independent companies with their own board of management and memoranda and articles of association. My Department has no role in the internal operations of LDCs and, therefore, does not have a role in relation to staff or employment matters.

It has not been possible to put an enhanced redundancy package in place in current circumstances.