Level 1 Actions Part B: Level 3 Actions - Donegal County Council

- an elected member who is a member of the County/City
Development Board.
• The Chairperson of the SIM Group should be selected from among the
Group’s members;
• Where working groups of the SIM Group are established, these should be
open to stakeholders with particular knowledge and expertise on the topic
in question, but with due regard to the need to avoid the size of the group
becoming too large and unwieldy.
• In order to ensure continuity in the work of the SIM Group, members
should remain in the group for a minimum of two years and ideally longer.
After a maximum of three years, the nominating bodies should be asked
to confirm their mandate for their SIM members, or select new members
if they consider this is necessary. It should be noted however, that State
agency representatives continue to be members of SIM Groups until they
cease to hold the position in their agency through which they came to be
a SIM Group member.
• Other bodies with a social inclusion remit, as determined by the CDB,
may also be represented on the SIM Group, having regard to the need to
avoid membership becoming too large.
3. Operational Matters
• The SIM Group should continue to operate as a sub-committee of the
County/City Development Board and staff from the Community and
Enterprise Department of the local authority should continue to service
the SIM Group. However, it is highly desirable that all agencies
represented on the SIM Group should also provide practical support
(including secondment of staff for specific projects) where relevant and
appropriate and take lead responsibility for specific actions, as required.
• SIM Groups should meet around six times a year. However, in order to
maximise efficiency, SIM Groups may set up sub-groups to carry out
specific tasks, where this is considered necessary.
• All SIM Groups, including sub-groups, should have a simple structure.
Any such sub-groups should however have very clear time-bound remits