Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly

The Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly was established under the Local Government Reform Act 2014 and has a statutory role in the regional government structure for the 12 Eastern and Midland local authorities. These are the local authorities of Dublin City, South Dublin, Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown, Fingal, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath, Louth, Westmeath, Laois, Longford and Offaly.

The main roles of the Assembly are to:

 Prepare, adopt and implement the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies (RSES)
 Participate in the design and delivery of EU funding programmes, notably the EU Just Transition Fund
 Identify, participate and co-ordinate EU projects
 Support the national delegation to the Committee of the Regions (CoR)
 Oversee and support the Irish Regions European Office (IREO) in Brussels
 Support the work of the National Oversight and Audit Commission