Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 January 2021
14. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under each scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4053/21]
View answerThe Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme enables public sector bodies to connect with small businesses to provide innovative solutions to societal problems. SBIR falls under pre-commercial procurement and enables public bodies to purchase research to stimulate innovation, when goods or services are currently not available in the marketplace. It is managed by Enterprise Ireland who refund the public sector bodies for up to 50% of the project costs.
The amounts of funding received by local authorities under the SBIR scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2021 are set out in the table below.
|
Local Authority |
Funding Received 2018 |
Funding Received 2019 |
Funding Received 2020 |
Funding Received 2021 |
|
Dublin City Council |
€200,000 |
€150,000 |
€120,000 |
0 |
|
Limerick County Council |
0 |
€80,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
Cork County Council |
€40,000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Clare County Council |
€43,750 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Waterford Council & Dun Laoghaire Rathdown (DLR) |
€25,000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Fingal and Cork City Councils |
€50,000 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Dublin City Council (with Belfast City Council) |
0 |
€50,000 |
€50,000 |
0 |
The Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus Schemes were introduced as COVID19 business support measures on foot of Government Decisions and operated by the 31 Local Authorities from May 2020 to October 2020. These schemes were demand led and not operated by a funding scheme that local authorities could apply for.
The table below sets out the total amount of applications paid and corresponding monetary values for the Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus Schemes for the total duration of the schemes and as at 11 January 2021.
|
Local Authority |
RESTART GRANT TOTAL NUMBERAPPLICATIONS PAID |
VALUE APPLICATIONS PAID € |
RESTART GRANT PLUS TOTAL NUMBERAPPLICATIONS PAID |
VALUE APPLICATIONS PAID € |
|
Carlow |
654 |
€2,373,806 |
702 |
€5,110,543 |
|
Cavan |
1021 |
€3,059,204 |
1039 |
€6,701,168 |
|
Clare |
1403 |
€4,847,508 |
1437 |
€10,146,582 |
|
Cork City |
2634 |
€12,551,153 |
2638 |
€23,808,029 |
|
Cork County |
3235 |
€10,700,791 |
3593 |
€20,043,046 |
|
Donegal |
2070 |
€7,132,781 |
2304 |
€17,058,197 |
|
Dublin City |
4982 |
€23,991,718 |
7237 |
€73,569,983 |
|
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown |
1195 |
€6,528,690 |
1949 |
€19,201,893 |
|
Fingal |
1983 |
€9,215,654 |
2069 |
€20,881,974 |
|
Galway City |
1017 |
€5,185,265 |
1767 |
€13,712,624 |
|
Galway County |
1689 |
€5,482,897 |
1738 |
€11,519,047 |
|
Kerry |
2029 |
€7,624,500 |
2107 |
€15,851,460 |
|
Kildare |
1802 |
€6,935,764 |
1893 |
€18,512,702 |
|
Kilkenny |
1077 |
€3,641,791 |
1117 |
€7,683,603 |
|
Laois |
456 |
€1,545,065 |
920 |
€6,083,736 |
|
Leitrim |
443 |
€1,247,571 |
469 |
€2,956,216 |
|
Limerick |
2215 |
€8,728,059 |
2300 |
€17,816,245 |
|
Longford |
664 |
€1,965,694 |
672 |
€4,231,257 |
|
Louth |
1130 |
€4,897,346 |
1922 |
€13,383,817 |
|
Mayo |
1941 |
€6,465,731 |
2025 |
€13,765,912 |
|
Meath |
1695 |
€6,209,209 |
1765 |
€12,764,470 |
|
Monaghan |
834 |
€2,791,312 |
2029 |
€6,566,366 |
|
Offaly |
889 |
€2,682,224 |
903 |
€6,479,148 |
|
Roscommon |
844 |
€2,556,750 |
871 |
€5,685,494 |
|
Sligo |
907 |
€2,849,926 |
920 |
€6,159,183 |
|
South Dublin |
1731 |
€9,079,672 |
1953 |
€21,638,859 |
|
Tipperary |
2106 |
€6,547,378 |
2165 |
€13,839,865 |
|
Waterford |
1365 |
€5,242,979 |
1421 |
€10,255,714 |
|
Westmeath |
1132 |
€3,710,302 |
1168 |
€7,796,034 |
|
Wexford |
2065 |
€7,544,023 |
2116 |
€14,984,735 |
|
Wicklow |
1450 |
€5,267,386 |
1511 |
€10,629,897 |
|
GRAND TOTALS |
48,658 |
€188,602,149 |
56,720 |
€438,837,799 |
