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Stopgap €650,000 for Laois community and business projects welcomed by Laois Partnership
Leader Programme delay covered by transition fund
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A Laois agency that funds community initiatives and local enterprises is to get nearly €650,000 to cause ba delay in funding the LEADER Programme which is not now expected to recommence until 2023 due what the Government says are delays at EU level.
The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD, today (Wednesday, December 16th) announced details of the Transitional LEADER Programme which will come into effect in April 2021.
A statement said that in line with a commitment in the Programme for Government, the Transitional LEADER Programme will bridge a gap between the wind-up of the current 2014-2020 LEADER Programme and the start of the next EU programme, which is not likely to commence until 2023 due to delays at EU level.
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805,000 euro secured for Roscommon under the Transitional Leader Programme Published: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 12:25
Chair of the Dáil Committee on Rural and Community Development, Denis Naughten TD, has confirmed the allocation of 805,000in transitional funding for the Roscommon LEADER Companies.He says that project approvals under this Transitional Programme will commence from 1
st April 2021, but the local LEADER company can work on identifying potential projects from 1
st January next.
Early in the New Year the Dáil s Rural and Community Development Committee will be hearing from representatives of the LEADER companies to see what additional supports are needed to ensure that adequate funding will be available to support rural areas from 2021 to 2023, Deputy Naughten explained.