Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

This question relates to the experience of CEBs. Today, an individual told me that his CEB had no money when he went to it in April 2011. He did not want to return to it this year because he figured that it would still have no money. When I contacted the CEB recently, it stated that it had money.

There is a great deviation between CEBs' first quarter results. Some have spent 90% of their money and some have spent 50%. What strategic tools are used in the delivery of funds to CEBs? They should base their strategies on demand, population sizes within their areas and levels of unemployment. They need to create demand rather than just respond to it. The CEBs, or LEOs as they will become known, should not be a part of the demand-led experience where enterprise is concerned. They should be used as a tool to awaken and create enterprise. May I contribute again, as a number of questions are being taken together?

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