Leader groups to rally over control of community enterprise funding
The dispute relates to the Department of the Environment’s plan to give local authority committees an oversight on Leader fund distribution. The community groups say this centralisation of control runs counter to EU devolution directives.
The push for a Dáil demonstration has come from groups attending Leader group public meetings in the past week. Some 800 people attended an IRD Duhallow meeting on Monday in Newmarket, Co Cork, while around 1,000 were at a similar meeting in Limerick last week.
