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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 9 Oct 2002

Vol. 554 No. 5

Written Answers. - Regional Operational Programmes.

Martin Ferris

Ceist:

421 Mr. Ferris asked the Minister for Finance the criteria used in the selection of the representatives of the social partners who are members of the regional operational programmes monitoring committees. [16443/02]

Article 35.1 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1260/1999 – General Structural Funds Regulation – requires the supervision by a monitoring committee of each operational programme co-funded by Structural Funds. The national development plan, NDP, and the Community Support Framework, CSF, 2000-2006 provide for membership of the monitoring committees to include representatives of the four social partners pillars.

Responsibility for assembling the monitoring committees rested with the designated managing authority for the relevant operational programme. The managing authority for each of the operational programmes, in this case the Border Midland and Western Regional Assembly and the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly, wrote to each of the four social partners pillars, namely, the community and voluntary pillar, the farming pillar, the trades union pillar and the employer-business pillar, inviting each of them to make arrangements for nominations to membership of the regional operational programmes. In deciding upon their representation their attention was drawn to the commitment in the NDP-CSF that gender balance will be promoted on all monitoring committees. Each of the four social partners pillars have two representatives on the monitoring committees.

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