Minister to visit Roscrea to launch North Tipperary Development Company strategy

Minister for Community Development and Charities Joe O’Brien will visit Roscrea this Monday to launch the new Strategic Plan developed by North Tipperary Development Company (NTDC).

NTDC provides a wide range of supports to over 10,000 individuals and 200 groups across the county each year and the new plan has been developed to guide the organisation, its board and 75 employees in the period until 2025.

The event takes place at the Roscrea Community Centre at 10am next Monday, February 13.

For the remainder of the day, NTDC is organising a programme of events to showcase community and social inclusion facilities in the county to the Minister and his officials.

Minister O’Brien has responsibility across three government departments that provide funding to NTDC, particularly in the area of social inclusion and rural development.

In the recent ministerial reshuffle, he was given extra responsibility at the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to add to his roles at Social Protection and Rural & Community Development.

Minister O’Brien, who previously worked in areas of human rights and homelessness. has been responsible for securing increased budgets for the national social inclusion programme, SICAP and for getting approval to changes in CE, Tús and Rural Social Scheme, all of which are operated locally by NTDC.