Progress Report 2013 / 2014
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COMMUNITIES IN DUHALLOW PAGE Chairman’s Address ...................................................................................................................................................2 Manager’s Report ........................................................................................................................................................3 IRD Duhallow Ltd Company Structure .......................................................................................................4 IRD Duhallow Board Members ..............................................................................................................5, 6, 7 Staff ........................................................................................................................................................................................8 Environment ...................................................................................................................................................................9 LIFE+ and LIFE IV ...............................................................................................................................................10, 11 Agriculture .............................................................................................................................................................12, 13 Tourism .............................................................................................................................................................................14 Duhallow Angling Centre of Excellence .................................................................................................15 Culture and Heritage .....................................................................................................................................16, 17 Social Enterprise .......................................................................................................................................................18 LEADER ............................................................................................................................................................................19 LEADER Projects ...............................................................................................................................20, 21, 22, 23 Enterprise ...............................................................................................................................................................24, 25 Community Development ........................................................................................................................26, 27 LCDP & SICAP...............................................................................................................................................................28 LCDP Projects ..............................................................................................................................................................29 Equality and Social Inclusion (Carers, Disability, Domestic Violence, Pal and Migrants) ................................................30, 31 Employment and Training.........................................................................................................................32, 33 Youth and Education ....................................................................................................................................34, 35 Equality for Women ........................................................................................................................................36, 37 The Land & People Mental Health and Towards Occupation .......................................................................................38, 39 SAOI ....................................................................................................................................................................................40 The IRD Duhallow region includes Warmer Homes ..........................................................................................................................................................41 North West Cork and South East Kerry. Rural Transport Programme ............................................................................................................................42 It is approximately 1,800 sq.km and has a CE Scheme .....................................................................................................................................................................43 population density of 16 per sq.km. Rural Social Scheme .......................................................................................................................................44, 45 It is a largely rural area. Over 85% of the Dublin Tús ................................................................................................................................................................................46, 47 population live in the open countryside or in DCFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................48 settlements of less than 200 people. The Duhallow region has four market towns: Limerick Kanturk (Pop 2263), Millstreet (Pop 1574), Newmarket (Pop 988) and DUHALLOW Rathmore (Pop 778) and 36 villages. Cork James O’Keeffe Institute, Fitzgerald and Sheila Fitzgerald Noreen Newmarket, Co. Cork, Ireland. Republic Creative Carroll Sheila Tel: 00-353-29-60633 Kanturk Printers Fax: 00-353-29-60694 hotographs by: by: hotographs rinted by: by: rinted Email: [email protected] Designed by: P P Web Site: irdduhallow.com Minister of State Sean Sherlock receives the Company’s Progress Report from Cormac Collins, Chairman and Maura Walsh, CEO IRD Duhallow. page 2 Chairman’s Address Manager’s Report The past year will go down in the Annals of Duhallow entirely voluntary capacity guided the phenomenal In reviewing the work of the Company over this the region. Warmer homes not only reduces carbon as the year of the great test of the Board’s leadership, successful growth of the service over the past 10 the final year of the delivery of a number of our emissions and saves the scarce income of pensioners courage and tenacity. years. So as we move from a local transport to a main programmes, LEADER, Local Community and low income families, it serves as a gateway for countywide service, let us hope that the people that Development Programme, Equality for Women, Rural families to access other supports and services in IRD Our strategic planning day was taken up with are so dependent on the service in Duhallow are not Transport, LIFE+ and Leonardo da Vinci, their huge Duhallow. I want to thank Gareth Walsh of KSN and positioning ourselves, crystallising the issues that we forgotten in the rationalisation rush and left behind. impact individually and collectively is well evident Brendan McKeown of DQS who inspect and audit felt were at stake and that were core to our existence. One thing, I am certain of is that there will be no right across the region. our warmer homes work, to ensure we operate to the Community Led Local Development is just that, owned, savings whatsoever. highest standard. and led by the community, local not county wide and Our ongoing animation and capacity building and bottom up not top down. We have consulted with our This Company was founded 25 years ago this year by targeting of social inclusion has seen more groups Indeed the company has several audits on all aspects communities and got a resounding vote of confidence a group of local businessman who all enjoyed angling getting involved in the development of their areas of our work, financial records and governance. when over 800 people attended our public meeting on on the Blackwater. One of them Michael Twohig, and communities. In addition, more are becoming Thanks to Padraig de Burca and his team in Pobal; alignment. I want to thank Frank Lewis of Radio Kerry who has served as a Chairman of IRD Duhallow in involved in their local community structures, as well Breda Dooley, Department Inspector for the LEADER for Chairing the event and Dr. Brendan O’Keeffe for the past, heads up a new LEADER funded initiative to as the sub-committees and Board of IRD Duhallow. Programme; Neil Wilkie of Astrale the LIFE Programme his valuble insight and straight talking, no nonsense establish Duhallow as an angling centre of excellence, Throughout this Progress Report you will see the Monitor; NSAI, the National Standards Authority of approach to the best way forward for alignment. focusing on the many trout teaming tributaries of the inputs; voluntary, professional and financial that have Ireland; the Environmental Health Officer Caroline Blackwater. Fellow angler, Tom Ankettell is developing gone into all aspects of our projects and programmes Smyth; the Health and Safety Authority Inspectors, The past year was very challenging and tested the leadership of the Board the centre supported by the angling clubs in the region. This is another and the outputs in terms of jobs, training, social inclusion, William Murphy and Gerard McSweeny; our company auditors Mary and that leadership came to the fore in strength. The eight former chairs vital piece of tourism infrastructure for Duhallow. new services, amenities and infrastructure. Power, Barbara O’Leary and Debbie Collins of Westboro Partners and formed an advisory group