Assistance

Dún Aimhirgin, 43-49 Mespil Road, Dublin 4

T: (01) 647 3000
F: (01) 667 0826
W: www.pobail.ie

Categories: Community & Rural Development; Policy

The Department has specific responsibility for:

• Community and local development
• Programmes for Revitalising Areas by Planning, Investment and Development (RAPID)
• Rural development, including LEADER+, CLÁR, Interreg, the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and the Western Development Commission.

It also retains the responsibilities previously held by the former Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands for both the Irish language and the Gaeltacht, and the development of the off-shore islands.

Bodies reporting to the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs include:

• Area Development Management Ltd
• Údarás na Gaeltachta
• Western Development Commission