DECLARATION OF SUPPORT FOR IRISH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES

There is too much being taken from the communities

Why change what is not broken?

Why change what is not broken?

I want to register my protest at what this Government is doing

I am not happy with what this Government is doing with our community work

Avondhu Blackwater Partnership has provided me with a service second to none

Avondhu Blackwater Partnership is a great company and are well capable of delivering

Likes the way Avondhu Blackwater partnership delivers these programmes

Services are invaluable from Avondhu Blackwater and I want them to remain so

These programmes should stay with Avondhu Blackwater as they have the experience

Avondhu Blackwater Partnership depedable

Is happy with the status quo

wants to maintain the services by Avondhu Blackwater Partnership

i ssupport irish local development companies

would like to see Avondhu Blackwater Partnership maintain these programmes

It would be a terrible loss.

Local development companies essentail to support local development. Developments at parish/community level gives real value for money, same at co . counil level costs 10 more, which makes me think we need to rethink local government: What about a co county council built from the bottom up,composed of local reps from each parish/community area, something like the GAA county boards imes morecil

secad do a lot of work for my hone town

In all reality, the privatisation of services provided by local development companies is not based on a common sense approach. It is contrary to everything that this country and the EU has fostered over many years. Like many pieces of European legislation, Ireland has interoperated it in a certain restrictive way. There is a laziness in this approach, and the Department show no signs of trying to have clarification made at an EU level or to initiate change to a more appropriate way of working.

I fully support the Local Development Companies.