Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 8 Feb 1995

Vol. 448 No. 7

Written Answers. - County Enterprise Boards.

Séamus Hughes

Question:

85 Mr. Hughes asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the total sum approved for all projects submitted to the county enterprise boards at the end of December 1994; the total sum from the end of December 1994 to date; the draw down figure on a national and county basis for each county for the same dates; and the action, if any, he proposes to take to improve the present procedures. [2863/95]

Minister for Enterprise and Employment (Mr. R. Bruton)

The statistical information on county enterprise boards sought by the Deputy is set out in the following schedule. The data supplied are subject to change in the light of project decommittals or amendments to amounts already approved in individual cases.

With regard to the present procedures under the interim operating guidelines, as the CEB initiative is entering a more definitive phase following the publication of the European Union operational programme for local, urban and rural development, I am looking constructively at how the aims, objectives, functions, administrative systems and funding criteria of the boards should take shape. I recognise the need to move rapidly to formally establish the boards as separate legal entities — com panies limited by guarantee — and to allow them operate flexibly. Systems for managing the resources of the boards will be put in place which reflect the objective of decentralising public agency decision making and expenditure.

County Enterprise Fund.

County	Approvals 1993-94	Drawdown 1993-94	Approvals 1995	Drawdown 1995
Carlow	810,859	191,688		42,969
Cavan	769,124	123,860		28,687
Clare	743,900	271,871		6,300
Cork City	451,647	40,768	71,257	21,494
Cork North	547,000	171,919		20,529
Cork South	810,940	187,085		57,988
Cork West	705,276	74,335	7,800	63,841
Donegal	683,949	78,689	64,750
Dublin City	589,440	221,017	92,500	57,747
Dublin Fingal	547,571	69,080	25,000	32,562
Dublin South	1,012,588	257,428		62,877
Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown	580,133	70,859	47,872	27,662
Galway	1,345,895	358,613	111,850	83,040
Kerry	1,183,913	184,453	50,757	3,406
Kildare	582,550	92,744	63,500	6,132
Kilkenny	706,726	98,456	105,500	59,684
Laois	621,219	115,359	59,415	18,925
Leitrim	731,614	201,460		40,756
Limerick City	543,983	89,052		17,563
Limerick County	931,154	133,490		49,866
Longford	522,039	207,374		8,534
Louth	337,824	72,015		6,072
Mayo	1,030,512	227,636	85,347	32,026
Meath	647,515	91,405	22,680	17,953
Monaghan	481,900	53,482		16,338
Offaly	856,210	103,768	5,000	16,901
Roscommon	750,795	132,417	64,750	68,763
Sligo	809,358	165,300	49,700	72,201
Tipperary NR	362,136	61,656	74,489	20,875
Tipperary SR	357,182	94,555	45,575
Waterford City	588,897	237,286		29,182
Waterford County	397,262	63,657		26,703
Westmeath	456,443	96,518	93,000	18,057
Wexford	994,978	156,082	54,600	85,674
Wicklow	780,050	169,347	88,625	45,337
	24,272,582	4,964,724	1,283,967	1,166,644

Declan Bree

Question:

86 Mr. Bree asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the names of individuals and/or companies grant aided by the Sligo County Enterprise Board in the period since it was established in 1993 to December 1994; the level of grant aid approved for each project; and the level of employment which each project is expected to create. [2873/95]

Minister for Enterprise and Employment (Mr. R. Bruton)

The information requested by the Deputy comes within the day to day responsibility of Sligo County Enterprise Board and is not a matter in which I have a primary function. I expect that the board will publish this data as appropriate.

Declan Bree

Question:

87 Mr. Bree asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the names of individuals and/or companies grant aided by the Leitrim County Enterprise Board in the period since it was established in 1993 to December 1994; the level of grant aid approved for each project; and the level of employment which each project is expected to create. [2874/95]

Minister for Enterprise and Employment (Mr. R. Bruton)

The information requested by the Deputy comes within the day to day responsibility of Leitrim County Enterprise Board and is not a matter in which I have a primary function. I expect that the board will publish this data as appropriate.