- Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs ( _ga. Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta) is the senior minister at the
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs in theGovernment of Ireland .The current Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs is
Éamon Ó Cuív , TD. He is assisted by:
*John Curran, TD – Minister of State for Drugs Strategy and Community Affairs.
*Conor Lenihan , TD – Minister of State for Integration Policy.Overview
The department was created in 1956 as the Department of the
Gaeltacht . Its present title dates from 6 June 2002 with the formation of theGovernment of the 29th Dáil . It has some 240 staff in 6 locations: mainlyDublin and Na Forbacha inCounty Galway .The department has specific responsibility for a range of functions including:
*Community Development Programmes
*Local Development
*the RAPID programmes
*Coordination of the National Drugs Strategy
*North/South Co-operation
*Volunteering
*Rural Development initiativesThe department also retains the responsibilities previously held by the former Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands for:
*theIrish language
*the Gaeltacht
*the development of Ireland's inhabited off-shore islands.List of office-holders
ee also
*
Irish cabinets since 1919
*Permanent North American Gaeltacht
*Volunteer Centres Ireland External links
* [http://www.pobail.ie/en/ Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs]
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