Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 316: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated to Mayo County Enterprise Board in each of the years 2002 to 2005 and to date in 2006; and what this funding was spent on. [39958/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Mayo County Enterprise Board (CEB) was established nationally in October 1993. The function of the CEB is to promote and develop indigenous micro-enterprise potential and to stimulate economic activity and entrepreneurship at local level. The role of the CEB is to deliver a series of support Programmes to underpin this function. Project promoters within any County may seek assistance from their local CEB and, subject to certain qualifying criteria, may receive either financial or non-financial assistance in the form of business training, mentoring etc. Priority is given to manufacturing and internationally traded services companies which, over time, could develop into strong export entities.

From 2002 to date in 2006 Mayo CEB has been allocated a total of €4,183,197 in exchequer funding to fund the range of financial and non-financial supports offered by Mayo CEB to its client base in addition of course to covering associated administration costs which are made up of payroll and non-pay costs such office overheads, travel costs, office accommodation etc.

The specific types of CEB assistance available to micro-enterprise is broken down between financial assistance such as grants for feasibility studies, employment grants and capital grants and non-financial assistance such as Programmes covering Business Management, Mentoring, E-commerce, Enterprise Education and Women in Business networks.

The precise information sought by the Deputy, broken down by year, is provided in tabular format below.