Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 291: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role of local authority members in relation to the establishment and oversight of the new local enterprise offices as proposed in the Action Plan for Jobs; in view of the fact that the county enterprise boards had local authority members alongside business people and local authority executive members on the boards will there be a similar role envisaged in the establishment of LEOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9531/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, under the recently launched the Action Plan for Jobs, I propose to establish a new "one-stop-shop" small and micro-enterprise support structure. These "One Stop Shops" will be called "Local Enterprise Offices" and will build on the significant work done by the CEBs to date. The new structure will be achieved through the dissolution of the existing CEBs and the creation of a new Micro Enterprise and Small Business Unit within Enterprise Ireland that will work with the Local Authorities to establish a Local Enterprise Office in each Local Authority.

With the dissolution of the CEBs as thirty-five individual legal entities the statutory, and corporate governance role, carried out to date by existing CEB Board members will cease to be required. However there is clearly a lot of detailed developmental work to be done over the coming months to effect these changes, and to put appropriate new structures in place, and I look forward to a positive engagement with all relevant Parties, including existing CEB Board members, who can assist and advise on the roll-out of the new structure.