Written answers

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Department of Rural and Community Development

Local and Community Development Programme

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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278. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the work of the cross-sectoral working group for the framework policy on local and community development; the membership of the group; the number of meetings held to date; the decisions and actions taken by the group to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13465/18]

Photo of Michael RingMichael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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A Cross-Sectoral Group on Local and Community Developmentwas established in May 2017 to develop a five-year implementation plan for the Government’s Framework Policy on Local and Community Development. The Group is chaired by my Department and comprises members drawn from the relevant stakeholder sectors, including the community development, local development and community & voluntary sectors, as well as local and central government.

The Group has met on six occasions to date, focusing primarily on developing actions for the implementation plan. The actions will be informed by the extensive consultation process undertaken by my Department; it will draw on the feedback received from the original consultation on the Framework Policy in 2015, outputs from the National Forum on Local and Community Developmentheld in November 2016, and outputs from a cross-sectoral workshop held by my Department in November 2017.

I expect a draft plan to be submitted for my consideration in Q2 2018. I hope to bring it to Government for approval shortly thereafter.

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