Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 February 2017
302. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of the jobs created by companies supported by her Department through local enterprise offices, LEOs, from 2011 to date in 2017, by county, in tabular form. [7840/17]
View answerThe Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), established in 2014, are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice, signposting, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business.
Statistics in relation to the number of jobs created each year through support provided by the LEOs are obtained by way of an Annual Employment Survey of LEO clients, which is undertaken towards the end of each year. Details of the full-time and part-time jobs created by LEO client companies in 2014 and 2015 are set out in the following table. The results of the survey for 2016, including on an individual LEO basis, are currently being collated and will be announced as soon as the exercise is completed.
It should be noted that following dissolution of the CEBs in 2014 and the subsequent establishment of the LEOs, an extensive cleansing of the former CEB client portfolio was undertaken by Enterprise Ireland. This means that data prior to 2014 cannot be compared with data from 2014 onwards.
Local Enterprise Office Annual Employment Survey Results 2014 + 2015
|
LEO Name |
2014 Gross All Job Gains (FT & PT) |
2015 Gross All Job Gains (FT & PT) |
|
Carlow |
341 |
267 |
|
Cavan |
203 |
223 |
|
Clare |
486 |
170 |
|
Cork City |
227 |
138 |
|
Cork North & West |
339 |
263 |
|
Cork South |
263 |
215 |
|
Donegal |
361 |
370 |
|
Dublin City |
615 |
426 |
|
Dublin DLR |
237 |
164 |
|
Dublin Fingal |
138 |
197 |
|
South Dublin |
202 |
223 |
|
Galway |
138 |
183 |
|
Kerry |
328 |
396 |
|
Kildare |
201 |
222 |
|
Kilkenny |
263 |
234 |
|
Laois |
85 |
156 |
|
Leitrim |
162 |
89 |
|
Limerick |
327 |
360 |
|
Longford |
206 |
208 |
|
Louth |
143 |
182 |
|
Mayo |
66 |
168 |
|
Meath |
262 |
247 |
|
Monaghan |
126 |
153 |
|
Offaly |
175 |
144 |
|
Roscommon |
72 |
145 |
|
Sligo |
133 |
127 |
|
Tipperary |
240 |
201 |
|
Waterford |
348 |
416 |
|
Westmeath |
197 |
309 |
|
Wexford |
267 |
326 |
|
Wicklow |
154 |
200 |
|
Grand Total |
7,305 |
7,122 |
