Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 14 May 2015
80. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the provision of funding for a centre manager (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19025/15]
View answerThe Killarney Technology Innovation Centre is supported by Enterprise Ireland through the Community Enterprise Development Programme.
The Government, on 11 February 2015, announced details of a €250m Regional Enterprise Development Initiative aimed at accelerating economic recovery in every part of the country. Up to €100m of those funds will be made available through Enterprise Ireland (EI) and the LEOs over the next 5 years through a series of competitive funding initiatives in the broad areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, skills, enterprise infrastructure and job creation.
The objective of these initiatives is to bring forward fresh collaborative approaches to boost enterprise and job creation at a regional level throughout Ireland. The initiatives will be organised under three separate calls that will be rolled out over the 5 years. The first of the calls from the €100m fund is a competitive €5m Community Enterprise Initiative which will be announced shortly.
