Launch of Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme Wexford 3 July 2015 by Brendan Howlin TD, Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform

Launch of Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme

Wexford, 3 July 2015

Brendan Howlin TD

Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform

Cathaoirleach
Assembly members
Distinguished guests

I would like to thank you for your warm welcome and in turn welcome you all to my home town of Wexford. I would especially like to welcome those who have travelled to be here today, from places as remote as Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

I would like to extend a special welcome to Merja Toikka representing the European Commission.

As a seaport founded in the ninth century, Wexford is a town that has always had an international outlook and a European perspective. More than two hundred years ago, the Wexford Republic was evidence of a community that was in sync with wider developments throughout Europe. Today our internationally renowned Opera Festival attracts visitors from across the world.

In the four decades since Ireland joined what was then the EEC, Wexford and communities across the South and East have benefitted from membership of the European Union and from EU funding. This funding has been put to good use in encouraging innovation, developing local infrastructure, supporting local enterprise, promoting rural development and the fishing industry, and fostering employment, education and training.

Cohesion spending is key to Europe’s agenda for jobs and growth, and will be one of the primary instruments for driving investment in the years ahead. It has been one of the success stories of Europe and has played a major role in reducing social and economic disparities and increasing cohesion in a Union of 500 million people in 28 Member States across more than 270 regions.

The European Regional Development Fund was established forty years ago this year, shortly after Ireland joined the EEC. In the forty years since it was established, Ireland has benefitted enormously from EU funding – from major infrastructure road and rail projects to smaller community projects, to projects aimed at helping people secure employment, acquire new skills and find better jobs. All serve to underline the real and meaningful ways Ireland has benefitted from its membership of the Union.

The Operational Programme that is drawing to a close has seen total investment of more than €680 million in the region, including €146.6 million of ERDF funding, with a focus on innovation and the knowledge economy; the environment and accessibility; and sustainable urban development.

Here in Wexford the sort of projects that see on the ground range from:
• DoneDeal.ie – with help from the Wexford County Enterprise Board, it has grown to be Ireland’s biggest and most successful classifieds website, with more than half a million visits each day
to
• The ZANA Cookhouse in Broadway – where Owen and Lorna Mullins have won many awards for their quiches and pies;
to
• the nearby Ferrycarrig Hotel – which has installed a 540kW biomass boiler to supply heating for the entire facility.

It is now nearly four years since the Commission launched its proposals for the new Cohesion policy for the period 2014-2020. In the first half of 2013 Ireland played a key role during our Presidency of the Council of Ministers in securing agreement not just for the Multiannual Financial Framewok but also key elements of the Cohesion legislative package, during marathon negotiations with the European Parliament in a record number of trilogue meetings.

While all this was going on, work was underway in Ireland on reaching agreement with the Commission on Ireland’s Partnership Agreement for the European Structural & Investment Funds – now covering not just the Structural Funds, but also the Rural Development Fund and the Maritime & Fisheries Fund. In total Ireland will receive almost €3.5 billion in ESIF funding over the period 2014-2020. Some €1.2 billion will come from the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund, an increase of 8% at a time when Cohesion funding across Europe will reduce by 8%.

I am particularly pleased that both the Irish regional programmes were among those in the first wave of operational programmes to be adopted by the Commission at the end of last year, and I would like to pay tribute to Stephen Blair and his team in the Southern Regional Assembly – which will act as the Managing Authority for the new Programme – for all their hard work.

The Operational Programme we are launching today builds on the success of previous programmes. It is about strengthening research and innovation in the region; about improving ICT infrastructure; about supporting SMEs; about improving energy efficiency; and about supporting sustainable urban development.

The programme is expected to support in excess of 50,000 micro-enterprises across the region with direct financial supports or other support measures – such as mentoring, management training and advisory services, it is expected to create 5,760 jobs in directly supported enterprises. It will increase the number of researchers in the region by nearly 700, and a further 140 high growth companies will benefit directly from innovation supports.

The National Broadband Programme, which is set to deliver next generation broadband throughout the region over the next few years, will also be part funded through the Programme, with an estimated 164,300 households to benefit. This will also enable a step change in the utilisation of e-commerce and other on-line opportunities for the region’s business community.

Another key aim is to improve the energy efficiency of the region’s housing stock. More than 19,000 households will benefit from the retrofitting of energy efficient insulation and other energy saving improvements, leading to savings in greenhouse gas emissions.

Recognising the major cities and towns as engines of the regional economy, the Urban Development Fund will provide grant assistance to Local Authorities for projects which address in an integrated way the various economic, social, and environmental challenges facing these urban centres.

Cathaoirleach, at the end of February I travelled to Brussels with you and your fellow Cathaoirligh from the Northern & Western Region and the newly established Eastern & Midland Region, for the formal signing of Ireland’s two regional Operational Programmes with Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu.

Last month I again met Commissioner Cretu at an Informal meeting of Cohesion Ministers hosted by the Latvian Presidency where we also had an opportunity to have bilateral discussions, and I look forward to welcoming her to Ireland later in the year when she will have an opportunity to see for herself the sort of projects that are being delivered on the ground.

Because delivering on the ground is what Cohesion policy is all about.

The Southern Regional Assembly also plays a key role in the Ireland/Wales Cooperation Programme which I was privileged to launch along with my Welsh counterpart, Jane Hutt, at an event in Swansea at the end of March. This is one of a number of European Territorial Cooperation Programmes in which Ireland participates and to which the region contributes. I would like to thank Stephen Blair and his team in the Assembly for their successful stewardship of the 2007-2013 Programme. I know they look forward to continuing to work with their Welsh colleagues on the implementation of the new Programme. I am confident that the links developed to date between the two regions will be further developed and strengthened.

The Assembly is also involved in the North West Europe and Atlantic Area Programmes, which present exciting opportunities for the region.

As well as these Programmes, Ireland takes part in the Ireland/Northern Ireland/Scotland Cooperation Programme. Like the Ireland Wales programme, it was adopted by the Commission in February and will shortly become operational.

A unique example of cooperation between regions is the PEACE Programme in Northern Ireland. I am glad that the Irish Government was successful in securing funding for a new programme to build on the success of its three predecessors.

Together the two Programmes represent more than half a billion Euro of investment in Northern Ireland and the border region over the next seven years.

The PEACE Programme deals with a unique set of issues, but is evidence of the two Member States and the European Union working together to address the legacy of the past and build for the future. Unlike our two INTERREG Programmes, it has not yet been agreed, but I hope it will be possible to finalise it without delay.

But today our focus is on the Southern & Eastern Region and the programme of investment that we are launching. It is a programme that is about creating jobs and supporting growth in this region, and continuing the process of economic and social recovery this Government began four years ago.

Thank you.

Iúil 6th, 2015|Buaicphointí, Speeches

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IP Stresser
With the increasing preponderance of large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on websites around the world, applying long-term DDoS defense that will defy these potentially incapacitating assaults is of extreme importance. But, how do you understand your defensive steps will in fact be helpful in a situation? Normally, choosing the right ip address stresser (another title to get a booter) is an occupation that is easier stated than done provided the wide array of products and providers accessible on the web in a number of different price points. Booters come in shapes and numerous sizes, and picking the best one for your needs can be a time consuming undertaking. This is the the reason why we have compiled this special record just for you individually to help you to find the best stresser for the needs that are electronic. Before we dive into the minutiae of choosing from among the very best booters out there, we would like to dissect a ddos-attack functions. The motives behind DDoS attacks are as varied as may be, but they all reveal one principle in keeping: To remove the target site stopping other (legitimate) consumers from obtaining its assets. This denial of service is understood via the use of applications that were unique that floods the device that was targeted hence compelling with web requests, the target to allocate assets apart from legitimate statements. Thus, additional consumers attempting to enter into the goal will encounter exceedingly slow surgery or problem messages. Normally, the host may be overloaded and crash if it is not right optimized to take care of high-pressure and high -load system conditions. They're usually executed with an external or internal assault vector even though numerous forms can be taken by DDoS assaults. An attack vector that is an inside generally takes the type of malicious software which uses the physical hardware assets of the service equipment up, thus making it gradual, incompetent at providing a regular answer to any inbound requests that are external from valid traffic and customers, and treacherous. An attack vector that is outside takes the form of undesirable traffic developed either via a dispersed collection of devices that are networked (additionally called a bot-net) or through actual human beings (such as using a software like LOIC). For this guide's intentions, we'll focus on the attack family that is exterior. Protecting your hosts from inner attacks may require the usage of antimalware applications that's at night scope of the guide. Instead, we will give attention to the kinds of pressure that is different screening alternatives offered to about the net personally to you now, and the best method to pick the right one for the Skype resolver that is distinctive and personal wants. One choice might be to use a main firewall managing program to be able to block incoming requests from various IP addresses that are questionable. Obviously, this option is comparatively fundamental and improbable to be suitable in hit situations which can be more difficult. Also, firewalls mightn't maintain the correct network level as a means to intercept this kind of destructive traffic. Together with DNS solutions and its conventional CDN, CloudFlare also supplies a high tech alternative by leveraging avenue strike boxes in the supply points of the strike and an internationally distributed data center network that will disperse, for protecting your system and server resources. You might think as a distributed protect against a dispersed strike of services like CloudFlare. As a means to assess whether your defensive actions probably will be productive within a a realworld strike in your server resources, you're do-ing to wish to analyze in a managed environment outside those defenses yourself. Many companies all around the globe provide ip address booting services to work as if they are a real world DDoS attack on your own system, to help you perform this testing test which is managed. By analyzing how your defenses respond to the simulated test, you could possibly observe for yourself if your current DDoS defenses are sufficient. All things considered, the worst thing you could do is wait until your system is under attack to gauge the effectiveness of your mitigation option. That is a recipe for catastrophe that individuals desire to allow you to use a skype resolver to stop.. Then let's examine how you will get the IP increaser that is perfect on your equipment and software configuration. Remember the points we touched on above when you see pick a certain merchandise. Based on your personal distinctive settings, many others might be worse than specific products. There is an extensive number of different stress tools that are not inaccessible out there nowadays. They each have distinct capacities, strengths, and weaknesses, to selecting the best one to your testing needs, thereby necessitating an in-depth guide. What types of features would you should attempt to find in the IP stressers you're considering utilizing? We ought to recognize the common features shared among booters that are first rate and notice those are optimal for the particular usecase, to answer this query. To best provide your DDoS rights a run for their money, you're likely to desire to throw at them just as much traffic as possible. Since DDoS assaults can happen on multiple layers, it is necessary to evaluate in case a given stresser is really capable of mimicking these varied forms of strikes. In the minimum, youwill need to make certain that there is a stated booter capable of mimicking attacks on Layer 4 and Layer 7, and that it could run numerous types of programs (such as SYN or RUDY) on those layers. Then you definitely might want to hunt elsewhere, if your nominee service cannot do attacks in this manner. You are also going to want to guarantee that the IP booter you're considering is not incompetent at handling an extreme traffic result over your testing time frame. At a bare minimum, the support may want devoted servers which can be souped up and capable of managing the sorts of extreme demands you will subject it to throughout the testing process. On Layer 4 and Layer 7 DDoS assaults, there are several amplification methods that could be used, including amplification, SSDP amplification, and amplification. The point that is crucial here is that you want to model in the most practical manner possible a realworld attack on your own infrastructure. You'll be when you go to accurately evaluate the effectiveness of your defenses the more amplification tools which are furnished, the better off. A great user interface is essential to plenty of of reasons, particularly when you are coping with a numbers-extensive program like an IP stresser. The booters that are very best will have user interfaces that are geared for fresh customers towards efficiency and availability. Additionally, you might need prior to making a buy choice to drive to get a demonstration to determine how the software looks and operates for you. The best stressers concerning the market will provide customer service that is second to none to you. To test away how efficient a specified business may likely be in providing you top-notch help, we advise that you merely reach out to them via email to find out how lengthy it requires to get an answer, and when that answer provides comprehensive, relevant advice regarding your issue or request advice. Applying this method, you'll have the opportunity to get a rough approximation of how well the firm is getting proper care of current clients and their potentiality. The top booters available on the market will likely let you try up and bring out their assaults economically and immediately. The power for confirmed IP stresser to start several concurrent assaults on your own defenses is an effective strategy to learn how well your systems are designed for the load over long trips. You're going to desire to discover at what price point just how several concurrent connections your ip address booter that is prospective can manage, and that performance is not unavailable for you. The types that are best is planning to have the opportunity to size and handle numerous strikes simultaneously. Another important feature of ip address stressers is the ability to allow them to browse around defensive mechanisms. The best booters around the net HTTP source titles for sites that solutions that are distributed protect is certainly going to are able to solve domain names and for instance CloudFlare. This performance could possibly be a terrific means to fix find out how nicely your dispersed protection service (for instance CloudFlare) can manage attacks that attempt to resolve domains. Let's summarize what we have protected here. Firstly, you discovered how DDoS attacks function, and many of the common characteristics shared among all of their their different types. Afterward, we took a quick look in the different preventative mechanisms that are not accessible unavailable on the market. We analyzed later an ip address booter's crucial, and the way by asking several questions that were critical to obtain the best one for your requirements. Another stage for you personally is in order that it is possible to choose on an ip address stresser which is best suited for your digital and budgetary needs to do your research and due-diligence. There are lots of booters available on the market, and you also are bound to discover one that satisfies with your exceptional usecase as well as both your budget.

Buaicphointí, Speeches - Iúil 6th, 2015

Launch of Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme Wexford 3 July 2015 by Brendan Howlin TD, Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform

IP Stresser

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