Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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130. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will extend the place-based leadership development programme to include Cherry Orchard. [17874/22]

Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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Funded by my Department, the Place-Based Leadership Development (P-BLD) Programme is being delivered in Darndale and Drogheda further to recommendations from the Nolan and Geiran reports. The Programme is an investment in local leaders to help them address the challenges experienced in those areas.

The P-BLD programme will strengthen the capacity of those already working hard to improve the quality of community life in Darndale and Drogheda. The programme will encourage and facilitate collaboration that will positively impact the culture of the area. It will build new community leaders to empower communities to address the issues they face. This approach will make a lasting impact and bring forward the solutions required.

I hope that the Place Based Leadership pilot programme will open up new perspectives and possibilities and provide opportunities for mutual learning that can be built upon and expanded to other communities in Ireland going forward once we see the results from Darndale and Drogheda.