To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Tourism and Employment the total annual funding received by local enterprise offices in each local authority area in each of the past five years, in tabular form.
REPLY
My Department provides funding, through through Enterprise Ireland, to the 31 Local Enterprise Offices. The level of funding is allocated based on a distribution model where 70% of the funds are divided equally among the 31 Local Enterprise Offices and the remainder is distributed proportionately, based on the population banding of the Local Authorities.
Capital funding is used to support enterprise development through Measure 1 (direct grant aid) and Measure 2 (capability training and development) interventions, while the Department also provides current funding to the Local Authorities for the administrative costs of running the LEOs.
Below is the funding, both capital and current, received by the Local Enterprise Offices for each of the past 5 years:
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