The Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, has announced the make up of the northside and southside regeneration boards, which will oversee the regeneration of the Moyross and Southill areas of Limerick city.
The boards include clergy, teachers and business people from the local communities, along with former Dublin City Manager, John Fitzgerald.
Minister Gormley said the boards will work to address issues of social exclusion and disadvantage.
The agencies were a major part of the recommendations in the report last April carried out by John Fitzgerald.
He will chair both agencies and Brendan Kenny, former assistant to Dublin city manager, will be the CEO of both agencies.
In addition, a number of individuals, including the Limerick City Manager Tom Mackey, Clare Co Manager Alec Fleming, Limerick Co Manager Ned Gleeson, as well as Limerick Chief Superintendent Willie Keane will be common to both agencies.
On the Northside Agency, Paddy Flannery of the Moyross Community Development Group, Aine Cremin, the Principal of Moyross National School, and Michael Tiernan, an entrepreneur who has worked with communities on both sides of the city, have been appointed.
The local parish Priest of Southilll Fr Pat Hogan, along with Ann Kavanagh of the Paul Partnership Agency, and Liam McElligott, former Chairman of Shannon Development and the Limerick Enterprise Development Board, will serve on the Southside Regeneration agency.
The management structures of both agencies with personnel common to both are designed to bring consistency to the approach adopted by both agencies he added.
Representatives from both the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Science will also be appointed to the boards.
The boards are due to have their first meeting before the end of June and will serve until 2012.
