Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 25 October 2017
117. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Finance the number of participants in the employment and investment incentive scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [45326/17]
View answerI am advised by Revenue that a report on the Employment and Investment Incentive (EII) scheme is available on the Revenue website at:
https://www.revenue.ie/en/corporate/information-about-revenue/statistics/tax-expenditures/eii.aspx .
This report provides EII statistics regarding qualifying companies, investors, investment amounts and also Exchequer costs. The report covers the years from 2012, the year in which the scheme was first introduced, to 2016, the latest year for which information is available.
The following table sets out the number of qualifying companies and investors availing of the measure for each year of its operation for which figures are available:
|
Year |
No. of Qualifying Companies |
No. of Investors |
|
2012 |
78 |
352 |
|
2013 |
190 |
1,028 |
|
2014 |
239 |
1,395 |
|
2015 |
279 |
1,530 |
|
2016 |
261 |
1,768 |
