Written answers
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Local Authorities
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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275. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19358/24]
Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides funding through the A8 Subhead to Enterprise Ireland to support the operation of the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) based within each of the 31 Local Authorities. However, my Department does not directly fund Local Authorities.
On an annual basis, Enterprise Ireland transfers any balance of unused funds from the A8 Subhead back to my Department. These funds include both capital grants and an element of current funding provided for the administration of the LEOs. The totals returned for 2022 and 2023 are set out below:
| Type Of Activity | 2022 amount returned € | 2023 amount returned € |
|---|---|---|
| LEOs Capital and Current | 56,210 | 17,913 |
Retained Capital and Refundable Aid amounts were returned to my Department in late 2023 and early 2024.
Retained Capital refers to funds retained by the LEOs to meet approvals that were ultimately not drawn down by clients to complete approved projects.
Refundable Aid refers to the portion of LEO Measure 1 priming and business expansion grants which were due to be repaid by the beneficiary.
The amounts returned by each Local Authority are set out in the table below:
Grant Aid Returned by Local Authorities in 2023.
| Local Authority | Retained Capital Returned € | Refundable Aid Returned € | Total Returned € |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 119,985.98 | 357,380.00 | 477,365.98 |
| Cavan | 130,896.00 | 318,158.00 | 449,054.00 |
| Clare | 90,675.00 | 290,695.00 | 381,370.00 |
| Cork City | 303,822.64 | 266,051.00 | 569,873.64 |
| Cork South | 690,869.62 | 151,468.00 | 842,337.62 |
| Cork W / N | 185,863.96 | 287,510.95 | 473,374.91 |
| Donegal | 132,531.90 | 175,763.13 | 308,295.03 |
| Dublin City | 196,644.20 | 722,599.26 | 919,243.46 |
| Dublin Fingal | 110,571.00 | 584,833.00 | 695,404.00 |
| Galway | 260,522.21 | 453,033.20 | 713,555.41 |
| Kerry | 285,069.00 | 213,654.00 | 498,723.00 |
| Kildare | 310,040.00 | 343,573.00 | 653,613.00 |
| Kilkenny | 0 | 255,675.00 | 255,675.00 |
| Laois | 85,434.00 | 225,312.00 | 310,746.00 |
| Leitrim | 398,344.43 | 227,327.50 | 625,671.93 |
| Limerick | 297,227.49 | 178,377.50 | 475,604.99 |
| Longford | 484,572.00 | 274,576.00 | 759,148.00 |
| Louth | 138,342.33 | 195,811.60 | 334,153.93 |
| Meath | 313,077.50 | 194,283.12 | 507,360.62 |
| Monaghan | 150,432.16 | 245,987.03 | 396,419.19 |
| Offaly | 114,790.13 | 418,959.60 | 533,749.73 |
| Roscommon | 80,674.42 | 137,263.61 | 217,938.03 |
| Sligo | 38,167.00 | 240,346.49 | 278,513.49 |
| Tipperary | 136,704.34 | 411,851.00 | 548,555.34 |
| Waterford | 223,515.00 | 332,933.71 | 556,448.71 |
| Westmeath | 428,836.19 | 71,767.83 | 500,604.02 |
| Wexford | 64,001.40 | 250,300.30 | 314,301.70 |
| Wicklow | 165,966.20 | 269,252.98 | 435,219.18 |
| Grant Aid Returned by Local Authorities to date in 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Authority | Retained Capital Returned € | Refundable Aid Returned € | Total Returned € |
| DLR | 297,773.00 | 487,877.00 | 785,650.00 |
| Dublin South | 182,339.36 | 931,350.43 | 1,113,689.79 |
| Mayo | 246,093.00 | 93,666.00 | 339,759.00 |
In addition, once off funding was provided to the Department's Vote for specific Covid-19 related measures. These included funding for the Restart Grants which were allocated to Enterprise Ireland (Subhead A7) who in turn funded the Local Authorities to meet claims under the scheme. When the scheme closed in 2021, some funds were returned by two Local Authorities to Enterprise Ireland and subsequently forwarded to my Department in 2022 and 2023 as follows:
| Local Authority | Restart Grant 2022 € | Restart Grant 2023 € |
|---|---|---|
| Roscommon | 10,350 | |
| Dublin City | 19,287 |
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