Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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There should be no reduction in expenditure for them. Critically, we are very much focused on making things simpler for all our local enterprise offices across the country. We have 31 of them. We started a simplification process and looked at the service level agreement between Enterprise Ireland and our LEO sector for the many schemes they administer. In my view, in some of them there were erroneous conditions. We are now working on a memorandum from Government setting out a new service level agreement. We are also trying to have conditionality reduced for any event that is small in expenditure but can have a significant impact. I referred earlier to the energy efficiency scheme. I have seen examples where small businesses have reduced energy bills by €1,200 or €1,400 per month.