Kilkenny People
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Kilkenny LEADER Partnership (KLP), members of the Irish Local Development Network (ILDN) who as ‘Local Action Group’ directly deliver the LEADER Programme in County Kilkenny, are calling for the €190 million Covid-19 EU Recovery Instrument available for Rural Development in 2021 and 2022 to be used to bolster the LEADER Programme.
They have urged the Minister for Agriculture Food and Marine Charlie McConalogue and the Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys TD to consider availing of the €190 million COVID-19 EU Recovery Instrument (EURI).
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.