Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 758: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average cost per job of jobs created by city and county enterprise boards in 2004 and 2005. [1777/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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County and city enterprise boards, CEBs, assist enterprises in the micro-enterprise sector, that is, enterprises with no more than ten employees. The primary role of the CEBs is to develop indigenous enterprise potential by stimulating economic activity and promoting the establishment of micro-enterprises at local level.

The average cost per job created by the CEBs in 2004 stands at €4,463 per job. In 2005, the average cost per job in CEB assisted enterprises stands at €4,484. The value for money principle remains fundamental to the business approach taken by the CEBs. The cost per job created in 2004 and 2005 represents a highly economic cost to the State. The above calculations are based on a census of all surviving firms carried out at year end 2004 and 2005 and incorporate the total employment in such firms at that date.