Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 January 2023
176. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total monetary amount of non-repayable moneys provided by his Department through grants, funding supports, tax breaks or other means to businesses in each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [3379/23]
View answerMy Department, through the enterprise development agencies, provides a range of tailored supports for enterprises of all sizes in Ireland. Supports include grants and softer supports such as access to finance, management development, mentoring supports, business development programmes, market supports and trade promotion. Tax breaks and other tax matters would be more appropriate to my colleague the Minister for Finance and to the Revenue Commissioners, however, in 2022 my Department provided €5,506,165.39 to the Revenue Commissioners to operate the Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS).
The total monetary amount of non-repayable monies provided by my Department and its agencies through grants, funding supports or other means to businesses is set out below.
|
Agency/body |
Year |
Non-repayable supports to business (amount €) |
|
Local Authorities Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus |
2020 |
€632.4m |
|
Enterprise Ireland |
2020 |
€140.8m |
|
LEOs |
2020 |
€68.4m |
|
IDA Ireland |
2020 |
€106.1m |
|
DETE (Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund - DTIF) |
2020 |
€19.3m |
|
Local Authorities Restart Grant plus |
2021 |
€297,920 |
|
Local Authorities Small Business Assistance Scheme for Covid (SBASC) |
2021 |
€20.7m |
|
Enterprise Ireland |
2021 |
€182.7m |
|
LEOs |
2021 |
€47.6m |
|
IDA Ireland |
2021 |
€105.2m |
|
DETE (DTIF) |
2021 |
€26.0m |
|
Enterprise Ireland |
2022 |
€153.6m |
|
LEOs |
2022 |
€31.2m |
|
IDA Ireland |
2022 |
€123.6m |
|
DETE (DTIF) |
2022 |
€28.7m |
In relation to Restart Grant and SBASC please note that the Department did not provide grants directly to businesses, the Local Authorities operated the Schemes on behalf of DETE.
In relation to Enterprise Ireland; EI infrastructural clients, Craft Council, Research organisations, Incubation Centres, Tech Centres (competency centres), Tech Gateways SFZ transfer companies, (Repayable (Grant/equity) supports types: Shares; CLNs and repayable grants) were excluded from this reply.
In relation to the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), the 2022 outturn results have not yet been finalised and as such the results provided are preliminary figures. The LEO Grant supports included are Priming, Feasibility, Business Expansion and TAME Grants. The other non-payable supports include Training and Development supports offered to business owners and managers, COVID support schemes, the Trading Online Voucher scheme, LEAN for Micro, and Digital and Climate supports (Digital Start and Green 4 Micro).
In addition, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment provides joint funding, alongside the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy, for InterTradeIreland (ITI), the North-South implementation body responsible for the promotion of trade and business on an all-island and cross-border basis. ITI uses this funding from both departments to operate a wide range of supports to help promote trade and business on an all-island and cross-border basis.
DETE’s budget allocation for ITI in 2020 was €10.192m, of which €7.7m is dedicated to capital funding to allow ITI to operate its supports.
DETE’s budget allocation for ITI in 2021 was €11.036m, of which €8.37m is dedicated to capital funding to allow ITI to operate its supports.
DETE’s budget allocation for ITI in 2022 was €11.586m, of which €8.9m is dedicated to capital funding to allow ITI to operate its supports.
