Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputies. An enterprise hub will be launched in the coming weeks. It will be a one-stop shop so people can identify which specific support is relevant to them without having to go through a myriad of different forms. I keep coming back to this, but we have made the increased cost of business grant as easy to access as possible. I have given Deputy Moynihan the figures for Cork. In Cork county, 12,000 are eligible. In County Kildare, it is applicable to 4,980 businesses and as of now just over 1,400 have applied. In County Carlow, it is applicable to 1,579 businesses and 448 have applied. Going back to what the Minister said earlier, I ask every Deputy to encourage people to apply for this. We have made the process as simple as possible. This will be paid out in the coming weeks up to €5,000. We will introduce more supports and identify relevant practical supports in the coming weeks to assist our smallest businesses.

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