Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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430. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on when the new Leader programme will start in Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29985/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The LEADER Programme is a key intervention of Our Rural Future, the Government’s Policy for rural development which aims to deliver a range of actions to rural communities over the lifetime of the policy. It supports a broad range of activities which aim to respond to the diversity of the local needs of our rural areas.

The 2023 – 2027 LEADER programme is open in 27 of the 28 LEADER sub-regional areas for Local Action Groups (LAGs) to receive applications for funding.

No successful LAG emerged in the Mayo sub-regional area following the conclusion of the selection process and a new selection process for the delivery of the 2023 – 2027 LEADER programme in the Mayo sub-regional area commenced on 27 June last.

My Department intends to have the 2023 – 2027 LEADER programme operational in Mayo at the earliest possible opportunity.