Local authorities may monitor economic performance indicators. These indicators include employment, enterprise, investment, housing, consumer behaviour and commercial property to benchmark their progress against local and national policy targets.
Age Friendly Ireland run a programme to support older people to continue to live independently in their own home or in a home more suited to their needs.
Local authorities, together with other agencies, may take part in the National Healthy Cities and Counties of Ireland Network through their Local Community Development Committees to promote lifelong health and wellbeing and influence national health policy.
Local authorities may run education programmes, commemorations, re-enactments and open days to raise awareness of, protect and preserve local heritage.
Local authorities may provide financial support to owners of historic structures and buildings to conserve and improve them for the benefit of communities and the public.
Local authorities may provide grants to older people who own their own home for repairs or improvement works to make their privately owned home more suitable to their needs.