Rural development programme gets €7m boost

Over €7m will be spent to radically change the future roll-out of a development programme for rural areas across the country, it emerged today.

Eamon O’Cuiv, the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, said the money was being provided to bring about greater cohesion in delivery of the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme (LDSIP) and Rural Development programmes after 2006.