Comments for Rural Development Support Unit

Comment on Irish Rural Link evaluates the 2009 National Broadband Scheme by philip jacovides

philip jacovides — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:59:26 +0000

My Company is based in Donadea Co. Kildare and we have no access to broadband whatsoever. Tried the “3″ mobile device and it doesn’t work. On eircom dial up package for years and takes 10 mins at least to download 1MB. It is affecting our business.
Paying more per month for a terrible service than others who are offered great broadband speeds at one third the price we pay.
I want to make sure we are included in any government rural broadband scheme.
We are discriminated against by lesser or the complete lack of services in many other areas. No mains water or sewerage,lack of road maintenance and lighting,no public transport. I even think we pay a higher standing charge to the ESB. This is ridiculous when you consider we get more power outages than average and they take much longer to be fixed than in a town. Pay more for poorer service is what it seems.

Comment on STOP THE PRESS: New NRN Web Site by Laois Partnership Co (LEADER)

Laois Partnership Co (LEADER) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:21:24 +0000

Hi John,
Laois Partnership Company (LEADER) looks forward to hearing more about your programmes. LAOIS PARTNERSHIP COMPANY was formed in 2008 to offer one unified structure for the delivery of economic, social and cultural services to small businesses, community groups and individuals in County Laois.
This work is largely delivered through: The Rural Development Programme (previously LEADER), the Local Community Development Programme (previously LDSIP), as well as a number of other complementary programmes.

Thanks,
Mark

Comment on OECD Workshop: Designing services for rural communities by John

John — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:51:20 +0000

James,
You might want to check out the web site of the UK based Commission for Rural Communities, the organisation that organised the event. You might also find the web site of the Irish National Rural Network of interest.

John

Comment on OECD Workshop: Designing services for rural communities by James Owuor

James Owuor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:25 +0000

I missed the details of this workshop which apparently resonate well with my efforts. Am trying to design an organization to support and revive rural development in my district in Kenya. So I can appreciate as much information and any form of assistance as possible. Am calling it Gem Development Forum, still in its formative stages. Thank you very much.

Comment on STOP THE PRESS: New NRN Web Site by John

John — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:32:47 +0000

Thanks very much for your comment Howard.

Regards,
John

Comment on STOP THE PRESS: New NRN Web Site by howard wilkinson

howard wilkinson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:25:12 +0000

i llok forward to learning more about your programmes

Comment on Projections of Irelands greenhouse gases by John

John — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:57:12 +0000

@Pat, thanks for your comment. In January of this year the EU council issued a decision amending the strategic guidelines for rural development in order to address the issues of climate change, renewable energy, biodiversity, water management and dairy restructuring in line with the recommendations from the Health check. Each of the Member States have been requested to revise their national programmes with an emphasis on promoting innovation “..by developing new technologies, products and processes”. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are in the process of drawing up these changes and have already consulted with key stakeholders in the Agriculture and Rural Development sector.

Comment on Projections of Irelands greenhouse gases by Pat

Pat — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:19:56 +0000

John Thanks for the update, have you any further information about how the CAP health check is going to address the issue of climate change?

Comment on Projections of Irelands greenhouse gases by John

John — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:34:48 +0000

@Thomas, thank you for your comment. In addition to the references above you might also be interested in the Community Climate Change Consortium for Ireland (C4i) Project (http://www.c4i.ie) which was established in 2003. Its main objective is to consolidate and intensify the national effort in climate change research by building a capability for carrying out regional climate modelling in Ireland and to provide assistance to Irish scientists utilising climate model output for their analyses.

Comment on Projections of Irelands greenhouse gases by Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:16:35 +0000

Very interesting to see how the Rural Development Programme is seeking to support the reduction of greenhouse gases. I think, however, there is even more that could be done.