The National Rehabilitation Board which administers European Social Fund assisted training programmes for people with disabilities on behalf of my Department, held a series of regional meetings during the summer and autumn of 1992 with the organisations involved in the vocational training of people with disabilities to seek their views-proposals on Structural Fund assistance in the post-1993 period. At these meetings, organisations were invited to make further written submissions. The organisations' views were taken fully into account in my Department's overall submission for Structural Fund assistance.
The following is a list of the organisations consulted:
Health Boards: Eastern, Midland, Mid-Western, North-Eastern, North-Western, South-Eastern, Southern and Western.
Voluntary Bodies: Disabled Drivers' Association; Brothers of Charity Services; Sisters of Bon Sauveur, Dungarvan; Cheeverstown House; Cope Foundation, Cork; Central Remedial Clinic; County Wexford Community Workshop; Drumlin House, Cootehill, Co. Cavan; Fingal Workshop, Skerries; Galway Association for the Mentally Handicapped; Irish Wheelchair Association; KARE (Kildare Association for the Mentally Handicapped); Leamore Park Industries, Longford; Mill Lane Workshop, Stewart's Hospital, Palmerstown; National Medical Rehabilitation Centre; Order of Malta; Polio Fellowship of Ireland; Rosses Sheltered Workshop; Cerebral Palsy Ireland; Rehabilitation Institute; SOS Workshop, Kilkenny; Spruce Lodge, Kilternan, Co. Dublin; St. Cronan's Workshop, Roscrea; St. John of Gods; St. Michaels House; St. Vincent's, Navan Road; Sunbeam House, Bray; Tipperary Workshop; Western Care Association; Dunfirth House, Enfield, Co. Kildare; Irish Epilepsy Association; National Council for the Blind; National Association for the Deaf; Cork Spastic Clinic; Bantry Communty Workshop; Clonmel Community Workshop and Camphill Community in Ireland.