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October 2019 • Tipperary Property Portal - Page 2 • M1 LEO Grants - Page 3 • Business Development Update - Page 4 • Broadband - Page 6 • Adoption Of The Climate Adaptation Strategy - Page 12 • Completion Of The Donohill CAS and Landfill Project - Page 14 • Irish Water Investment Plan - Page 18 • Rural Water Programme - Page 25 • Housing Delivery- Page 29 • Housing Grants - Page 32 • Corporate Plan 2019 - 2024 - Page 35 Oct 2019 October dates for your Diary Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12:00 Regional Assembly Mtg Waterford 14 15 16 17 18 09:30 CPG Meeting 10:30 North Tipperary 16:30 Clonmel BD Mtg 10:00 Nenagh MD Mtg 11:00 TCC Pleanary Mtg Foodworks Mtg - Roscrea 14:00 ETB Meeting - Archerstown 21 22 23 24 25 10:00 LCDC Mtg - 14:00 Carrick-on-Suir Littleton MD Mtg 10:30 Thurles MD Mtg 28 29 30 31 11:00 Tipperary-Cahir- Cashel MD Mtg Community & Economic 1-11 Environment & 12-17 Development & Tourism Climate Action Water Services 18-28 Housing 29-34 Corporate Services & 35-44 Human Resources Oct 2019 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORATE (LEO & TOURISM) New Policy/Strategic Issues; Policy Changes/Updates Date Adopted Progress in Previous Next Stage Month New Lough Derg Tourism At draft stage Research complete, Screening report required, Development Plan consultation ongoing, expected adoption Q4 2019. action plan in development, Review of Tipperary September 2019 Review completed in Recomendation to focus on Strategic Tourism, July. product development, new Marketing, Experience and Tourism Product Development Destination Development Plan for Tipperary to be Plan 2016 – 2021 prepared. Cashel Destination Town At draft stage Interim report Discussion with Fáilte Ireland Plan completed in August to progress capacity building 2019 actions in the short term. The infrastructural actions in the plan are dependant on the outcome of the site selection process for the new Rock of Cashel visitor hub which will be completed in conjunction with OPW, TCC and FI. Directorate Priorities Major Current Issues Progress to date Next Stage Redevelopment of www.tipperary.com 80% complete Complete web developement, translate to French and German, run google adwords campaign. Cashel Destination Town Plan Interim Report Complete Final report required subject to site selection for new visitor hub for Rock of Cashel. Tourism Product Development Plan for Brief prepared Procurement Tipperary Food Centre of Excellence LECP Mid Year Review of Economic Action Plan Following on from a Feasibility Study 2019 presented to LECP in June 2019 and conducted in 2017 looking at the viability of a approved. This report will be presented to the SPC in October. All actions are ongoing. Tipperary Food Centre of Excellence, Rockwell College was identified as a viable location. The initial phase would involve Management Report October 2019 Page 1 Oct 2019 working with a University and developing in turn awareness of Tipperary for investment executive and post graduate programmes in purposes. leadership specialised towards the development, production, marketing and LinkedIn Ads operations of the food businesses. A LinkedIn ads account has been created and In this regard UCC School of Food Science a marketing campaign also around and Nutritional Sciences have been ‘international access” has been completed. approached to partner with the Tipperary These ads will use B2B marketing in order to Food Centre of Excellence project as the connect personally with company decision University Partner. Currently awaiting reply makers in order to grow awareness of from UCC. Tipperary, The Place The Time to invest. County Marketing Campaign Twitter Ads A Twitter ads account has been created this Website will be used to promote online campaigns that All social media for Tipperary The Place The will be taking place. Time is now being managed by the eDev Analytics in Twitter ads will give us a break team within the IT department of Tipperary down on how our tweets are performing both Co Co. the organic and boosted ones. This is very useful as we can monitor who is engaging in our tweets and boost to get more traction. Google Analytics www.tipperary.ie has been moved to a more We now have the resources though the eDev robust hosting provider that will allow for team to capitalise on Google analytics. This easier development and future proofing of the will allow us to review the cause and effect of site going forward. our marketing and improve our online presence ensuring the website is engaging The new hosting provider also provides with the correct demographic and target multiple environments for development that rd market. will allow 3 parties (if & when needed) access to develop in a secure and controlled TIPPERARY PROPERTY PORTAL environment The objective is to promote all available lands, commerical properties and workspaces Google Ads through the Council website – A Google Ads account has been created and www.tipperarycoco.ie we have completed a marketing campaign This will be a searchable dataset of available around the first theme of “International commercial properties in a prominent place Access”. Google Ads will be used in order to on tipperaycoco.ie target companies outside of Ireland during It will be linked to from tipperary.ie and their working hours which in turn should potentially all town websites going forward. result in a growth of both visits to the site and Management Report October 2019 Page 2 Oct 2019 Listings will be searchable by location filter as Financial managment, Social media to Owner well as status i.e To Let / For Sale etc Manager Development programmes. The exisitng dataset daft.ie will feed into the A list of programmes can be viewed and property portal. A script can pull this booked on our website: information into our website to create the https://www.localenterprise.ie/Tipperary/Tr listings as often as needed. This will also aining-Events/ remove the properties as soon as the status changes. BREXIT– Supports: A contact form has been designed that will The LEO has organised one to one email a group and save the query into the mentoring supports to clients to assist them website database. identify key areas of exposure to BREXIT The property portal has been designed by and develop strategies to address issues and Ruth Maher IT department, and is currently potential opportunties. A second Customs with the economic team for consideration Export & Import Procedures Workshop will before being published onto the website. take place on Wednesday 6 November 2019, Horse & Jockey Hotel, Thurles. The one-day M1 LEO Grants workshop has been designed to give To June 2019, the local Enterprise Office has participants a broad overview of relevant committed €553,505 in grant assistance to 28 trade and customs procedures to ensure projects. This committed figure is distributed compliance with international export and between the 4 types of grant-assistance as import requirements. follows; Priming Grants (5- €137,550); Business A Double win for Tipperary LEO Clients Expansion Grants (9-€345,246) Feasibility Sharon Cunningham, co-founder of Shorla Grants (5-€55,305) and Technical assistance Pharma, who are supported by Local grants (9- €15,404) Enterprise Office Tipperary, took home the The committed amount of €553,505 includes top award of IRELAND’s BEST YOUNG a refundable element of €103,575 that is ENTREPRENEUR 2019 , also securing a repayable to LEO Tipperary. The grant total investment fund of €40,000. approved will leverage a capital investment of over 1.8 million in Tipperary. The Priming and Business Expansion Technical Assistance grants approved to date have the potential to yield 59 full time job equivalents at an average cost per job of €8,183 which represents an excellent return for EU and Exchequer funds. Entrepreneurail and Capability development Our Autumn Train to Gain booklet is now released with over 20 training programmes for DMS Governance (DMS), a global SME’s ranging from Start your own business, governance, risk and compliance (GRC) company is to substantially increase its Management Report October 2019 Page 3 Oct 2019 Ireland-based workforce by creating an • Tipperary Town additional 50 roles in Cashel. • Cahir • Carrick-on-Suir DMS also announced the creation of an • Roscrea additional 50 new roles in Cashel following Applicants are due to be informed of the the acquisition of Aviation Corporate Services outcome in December, 2019. (a LEO client since 2009) The job roles are for highly skilled financial service rofessionals Business Development update and qualified accountants. The project is Some updates on employment projects supported by the Irish government through that occurred during July – September IDA Ireland. period. LMC Nenagh. Former COTY site. Modular buildings. Currently located in Birdhill and will retain this site. 200 jobs. Sabrina Integrated Services. Former Littleton facility. AES (Bord na Mona) and Sabrina (China) joint venture. €5M investment – circa. 35 jobs. Launch on July 5th by Mr. Richard Bruton, Minister for Communications, Minister for Business Enterprise and Climate Action and the Environment. Bord Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD joined na Móna AES has partnered with Sabrina DMS at the official opening of its new Integrated Services (SIS), which will operate location in Cashel in September. the new recycling facility at Littleton that will handle large film plastics. At the launch, E-Hubs Minister Bruton said: “This new plastics The Tipperary Digital Hub opened for recycling plant in Littleton, Co Tipperary, is a business at Tipperary Technology Park, great example of how Bord Na Móna is Tipperary Town on September 26th. The adapting to a decarbonised world. “By project was supported by Tipperary county transforming their business and transitioning Council and LEO Tipperary, and will provide away from the fossil fuel industry, they are six hot desks aimed at remote workers and building a resilient, sustainable future for the startup businesses in the town.