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Clare councillors back decentralisation bid
THE government has been urged to prove its commitment to rural Ireland by moving the department responsible for it out of Dublin.
At the May meeting of Clare County Council, there was widespread and cross-party support for a motion tabled by Councillor Gabriel Keating calling on the authority to ask the Department of Rural Affairs and Community Development to decentralise “as an indication of their commitment to Our Rural Future policy document”.
The Fine Gael member referred to the publication last month of the new strategy document, which runs to 122 pages.
“Clare is a mostly rural county and we lead the way in terms of rural development,” he asserted.