The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development meets this morning on Arranmore Island, the first time an Oireachtas meeting which will be broadcast takes outside Dublin.
The meeting will take place at Gairmscoil Mhic Diarmuida in Leabgarrow at 10 o’clock this morning.
The meeting will discuss the operation of national and local policies as they affect Islanders, with submissions from the local co-op, and other representative bodies.
Issues such as climate change and biodiversity, housing and sustaining communities will be discussed.
The committee’s chair is Independent TD Dennis Naughton. He discussed the significance of today’s meeting on Highland Radio’s Nine til Noon Show this week………
