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2025-04-29
Politician(s) lobbied: Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: Our intention is that the EU's policy on the LEADER programme would ensure a sustainable budget and ease of administration.::Our secondary intention was that the Irish government would ensure that the LEADER programme co-funding arrangements were optimised in the Irish budget context, to ensure that the LEADER budget available to Irish Local Action Groups is adequate to the challenges and opportunities.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Met with Cynthia Ní Mhurchú: MEP |
| — | on her visit to our offices and requested that she take the Local Community Development Network position on the design and funding of the EU's LEADER programme into account when the opportunity arose in here work. |
2022-08-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Joe O'Brien (Minister of State), Department of Rural and Community Development; Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: Increased national budget for LEADER and SICAP programmes to closer to its size a decade ago. To facilitate more resources at local level to allow local dveelopment companies to tackle the increased challenges and duties placed on them.::Allow more low income far families to qualify for the Rural Social Scheme to assist them to remain in farming and active in rural KIlkenny.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Local representations to Oireachtas members on the Irish Local Development Network pre-budget submission 2022. Specific representations on the level of the indicative budget for the LEADER programme for 2023- 2027 and the SICAP programme budget to all Carlow Kilkenny Oireachtas members. Also request for changes to the eligibity criteria for the Rural Social Scheme to allow more low income farm families to qualify for the Scheme. |
2022-01-10
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; John Paul Phelan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Kathleen Funchion (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John McGuinness (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: That there would an increased awareness of the need to adequately fund Local Development Companies to benefit local communities throughout Ireland.::That the Government's programme for government committment on independent local action groups deleivering the LEADER programme would be honoured.::That the LEADER 2023- 2027 'indicative budget' would be increased from its unsustainable €180 million for the period to something close to what it was less than 10 years ago when it was €425 million.
Methods: Meeting, Letter, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Local representations to Oireachtas members on the Irish Local Development Network pre-budget submission 2021. Specific representations on the level of the indicative budget for the LEADER progarmme for 2023- 2027 to all Carlow Kilkenny Oireachtas members. |
2021-04-29
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Intent: Funding towards the continued operation of the the Nore Vision over that period.
Methods: Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Requesting of the Minister of Heritage that he support a three-year pilot programme in the River Nore catchment region of parts of Kilkenny |
| — | Laois and Tipperary to develop and sustain The Nore Vision' |
| — | a community-led broad-based startegy for the region. |
2020-09-03
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas
Intent: Inclusion of specific policies in the PfG; specifcally the creation of a Transition Programme to bridge the gap between the current and new LEADER programmes.::The promotion of 'Local Action Groups' independent of the statutory sector as the preferred model for the new programme
Methods: Virtual Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | We met |
| — | as part of a group of local development companies |
| — | with Malcolm Noonan TD to discuss the role of local development companies in the proposed 'Programme for Government' (PfG). |
2020-05-06
Politician(s) lobbied: Malcolm Noonan (Councillor), Kilkenny County Council; John McGuinness (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul Phelan (Minister of State), Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Councillor), Carlow County Council; Kathleen Funchion (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Pat Deering (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Bobby Aylward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Patrick O'Neill (Councillor), Kilkenny County Council; Denis Hynes (Councillor), Kilkenny County Council; Adrienne Wallace (Councillor), Carlow County Council
Intent: Declarations from the candidtates that they would support ILDN's policy positions in the event of the candidates elecetion.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Representations to 13 of the 14 candidates for election to Dáil Éireann in the Carlow-Kilkeny constituency of the policy position of th Irish Local Development Network (ILDN) and requesting the candidates declaration of support for the positions.f |
2020-01-02
Politician(s) lobbied: Grace O'Sullivan (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: That the MEP would have a full understanding of LEADER and the priorities that pertain in its new programme structures.
Methods: Meeting, Email
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | I met with Grace with an MEP to inform them on the operation of the current LEADER (rural development programme) and to seek their advice and assistamce in ensuring the next round of LEADER is fit for its purpose in terms of rules and regulations. |
2019-04-29
Politician(s) lobbied: Deirdre Clune (MEP), European Parliament; Marian Harkin (MEP), European Parliament; Mairead McGuinness (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: To gain a better understanding of the new RDP regulation and to make clear our position on the prohramme.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | We met with seleceted MEPs on the emerging design of the new Rural Development Programme (RDP)- and specifically on the LEADER programme elements. |
2019-01-18
Politician(s) lobbied: Marian Harkin (MEP), European Parliament; Deirdre Clune (MEP), European Parliament; Mairead McGuinness (MEP), European Parliament
Intent: To ensure that the new LEADER programme (post 2020) was fit for purpose as a community-led initiative.
Methods: Meeting
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | Meetings with MEPs on the draft Common AgriculturePolicy regulation- particularly as its affects the design of the Rural Development Programme generally and the LEADER programmme in particular. I met with Marian Harkin MEP ( and her assistant) and with Deirdre Clune MEP on the issue. I had a very brief disussion with Mairead McGuinness MEP also. |
2018-08-30
Politician(s) lobbied: Kathleen Funchion (Councillor), Kilkenny County Council; Bobby Aylward (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John McGuinness (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; John Paul Phelan (TD), Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas; Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Senator), Seanad
Intent: That the Government will act on its announcement in the summer to fund the number of Volunteer Centre who had applied for funding.
Methods: Letter
Details & Methods:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| — | KLP requested the support of local Oireachtas representatives towards securing the funding necessary to establish a Volunteer Centre in County Kilkenny |
| — | as annouced by Government. |