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Local Enterprise Offices Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 April 2018

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Ceisteanna (106)

Hildegarde Naughton

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106. Deputy Hildegarde Naughton asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs supported by the local enterprise office in Galway city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16188/18]

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The Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Galway City & County is the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and ‘soft’ supports in the form of training and mentoring to anyone wishing to start or grow a business.

LEO Galway provides a ‘signposting’ service in relation to all relevant state supports available through agencies such as Revenue, the Department of Social Protection, Education and Training Boards, Credit Review Office and Microfinance Ireland.

Subject to certain eligibility criteria, the LEOs provide financial assistance to microenterprises (10 employees or fewer) in the manufacturing and internationally traded services sector which, over time, have the potential to develop into strong export entities.

In that regard in 2017 the LEO Galway City & County supported 254 clients with 1,039 total jobs which was a gross increase of 192 jobs on 2016.

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