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White Paper on Rural development

Ensuring the Future - A Strategy for Rural Development in Ireland A White Paper on Rural Development

Table of Contents 

Foreword                                          Brollach

1. Introduction

3. Future Vision and Policy Agenda

4. Strategic Policy Framework  

5. Policy Focus: Institutional Arrangements  

6. Balanced Regional Development

• Settlement Pattern
• Objective Regional Planning
• Infrastructure
• Access to Services  

7. Employment; Maintenance and Creation

• Agriculture
• Food
• Other Natural Resources
• Enterprise
• Tourism  

8. Human Resources

• Education and Training
• Community Development  

9. Social Inclusion

10. Culture  

11. The Environment    

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