Local Enterprise Offices Data

Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Questions (278)

Fergus O'Dowd

Question:

278. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons that accessed the local enterprise offices for their services in the Leinster region in each of the years 2014 and 2015; the number of staff employed in each location; the amount of funding each location in Leinster has drawn down in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38924/16]

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Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Given the wide range of the Local Enterprise Offices remit, their engagement with their clients takes many forms: from drop-in visits; telephone calls; emails and meetings; to social media contacts via platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, among others. Data on the volume of all such client engagement is not currently available across the 31 individual LEOs.

However, in respect of key LEO services, data for 2014 and 2015 can be provided as set out in the following tables:

Table 1: No. of Leinster LEOs Capital Grants Paid and Training and Mentoring Participants

-	No. of Measure 1 Capital Grants Paid		No. of Training Participants		No. of Mentoring Participants
Leinster LEOs	2014	2015	2014	2015	2014	2015
Carlow	39	25	1,754	1,296	98	114
Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown	50	36	1,302	1,759	439	427
Dublin City	71	58	1,581	1,377	1,059	1,560
Fingal	39	49	1,443	1,504	825	766
South Dublin	29	38	667	722	424	487
Kildare	18	18	1,050	1,008	311	411
Kilkenny	35	27	693	828	273	335
Laois	12	10	416	562	85	193
Longford	36	28	367	331	87	73
Louth	26	28	533	413	50	85
Meath	22	28	304	460	360	416
Offaly	30	34	492	540	71	98
Westmeath	33	42	948	1,086	77	99
Wexford	38	27	1,136	942	113	101
Wicklow	39	39	1,454	1,139	332	455
TOTAL	517	487	14,140	13,967	4,604	5,620

Table 2: No. of Leinster LEOs Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur Applications and Trading Online Vouchers Approved

	No of Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur Applications			No. of Trading Online Vouchers Approved
Leinster LEOs	2014*	2015	2016 (to Mid-Oct)	2014 + 2015	2016 (to Mid-Oct)
Carlow	27	40	27	47	17
Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown	30	52	72	121	47
Dublin City	102	114	127	137	69
Fingal	60	53	110	101	25
South Dublin	53	41	67	32	25
Kildare	32	52	54	73	19
Kilkenny	26	25	37	68	20
Laois	24	73	64	25	18
Longford	19	15	31	15	7
Louth	31	65	76	42	33
Meath	28	37	69	15	13
Offaly	18	34	36	30	12
Westmeath	27	42	54	38	23
Wexford	39	43	64	54	44
Wicklow	49	43	57	132	49
TOTAL	565	729	945	930	421

Given the range of contact options, Enterprise Ireland has initiated a project to develop a single Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS) for use by all the LEOs. The aim of the CRMS project is to provide a more structured approach to contact management across all of the LEOs.

Details of the number of staff in each of the LEOs in Leinster and the amount of funding drawn down in 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date are set out in the following table.

Table 3: Leinster LEOs Staff Numbers and Funding Drawdowns

-	-	Funding Drawn Down
Leinster LEOs	No of Staff*	2014	2015	2016*
Carlow	4	€639,473	€667,092	€704,307
Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown	6	€1,224,551	€813,914	€861,944
Dublin City	10	€1,322,194	€1,143,267	€1,363,523
Fingal	7	€906,824	€951,020	€1,009,685
South Dublin	6	€845,348	€814,051	€925,626
Kildare	4	€756,848	€683,709	€805,095
Kilkenny	4	€789,372	€777,715	€760,681
Laois	3	€674,790	€649,010	€583,423
Longford	3	€705,383	€651,914	€541,507
Louth	5	€717,615	€668,247	€656,200
Meath	5	€711,092	€456,292	€743,898
Offaly	4	€764,612	€630,408	€671,587
Westmeath	5	€931,494	€806,009	€951,990
Wexford	4	€833,164	€729,246	€769,403
Wicklow	5	€930,979	€848,410	€803,356
TOTAL	75	€12,753,739	€11,290,304	€12,152,225

*as at 5 December 2016