Comhar na nOileán Teo. is the newly formed LEADER /Partnership Company for the inhabited offshore islands of Ireland. The Company will have an extended brief to cover delivery of Local Development Social Inclusion programmes to islands off the coast. As well as having responsibility for delivery of Rural Development and LDSIP programmes, the Company will take over as the implementing body for the Rural Social Scheme on Ireland’s islands.
The membership of the new Board of Directors complies with directives from the Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs and is made up as follows:
Local Government Representatives
Social Partners
Community & Voluntary
Statutory
Members:
Cllr. Daithí Alcorn, Donegal County Council / Údarás na Gaeltachta
Jackie Sullivan Bere Island, I.F.A.
Simon Murray, Inishbofin, Co. Galway
Padraic Ó Cuinn, Údarás na Gaeltachta
Cllr. Seosamh Ó Cuaig, Galway County Council /Údarás na Gaeltachta
Mícheál Ó Goill, Gairmscoil Éinne, Inis Mór, I.C.T.U.
Brídín Ní Chonceanainn, Inis Meáin
Michael Keatinge, B.I.M.
Cllr. Austin O’Malley, Mayo County Council
F.I.F (Fishermen) To be nominated
Cathy Ní Ghoill, Comharchumann Forbartha Árann, Inis Mór,
Helen O’Halloran, Fáilte Ireland
Cllr. Noel Harrington, Cork County Council
Employers: To be nominated
Padraic O’Malley, Clare Island
Cuimín Mac Aodha Bhuí, H.S.E.
Des Mahon, County Manager, Mayo County Council – County Managers’ Nominee
Mícheál Ó Céadagáin, Comharchumann Chléire Teo
Barra O’Briain, Irish Vocational Education Association
John Walsh, Bere Island
Michael Diskin, Teagasc
Nóirín Uí Mhaoldomhnaigh, Comharchumann Oileán Árainn Mhóir Teo
Máirín Uí Fhearraigh, Ancaire
The Company submitted an application under Axis 3 & 4 of the Rural Development Programme to the Department of Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs in July 2008.
Information sessions on the new programme will be organised in cooperation with island Co-operatives and Development Companies as soon as is practical.
LEADER staff will transfer to the new Company when the transfer of undertakings between the two companies is agreed. It is hoped that this will be completed before the end of the year. Contact details for the staff will remain the same.
Comhar na nOileán will work with Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann to assess the needs of the islands and to develop a co-ordinated approach to addressing those needs.
For general information about the programmes we administer, contact
Programmes Manager: Mairéad O’Reilly mairead@oileain.ie 099 75096
Financial Administrator: Marian Uí Chonghaile marian@oileain.ie 099 75096
Administrator – National Rural Development Programme (NRDP): Sharon Uí Dhomhnaill sharon@oileain.ie 099 75096
Secretary NRDP: Linda Searraigh linda@oileain.ie 099 75096
NRDP Project Officer – non-Gaeltacht Islands: Mary Lavelle mary@oileain.ie 095 45016
Comhar na nOileán
Inis Oírr
Árainn
Co. na Gaillimhe
099 75096