Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of the budget for Enterprise Ireland that is spent on salaries, administration, overheads and grants to businesses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44666/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The information sought by the Deputy is below in tabular form.

In relation to administration costs, Enterprise Ireland operates a network of 32 overseas offices and 10 regional offices in Ireland, all actively engaged in assisting clients start their companies, scale their companies, achieve export sales, invest in research and development or drive productivity through its broad suite of programmes. Therefore a high level of the organisation's administration costs is consumed by the delivery of services to client companies.

In addition to the diverse range of R&D supports to firms provided by EI, a service is provided which gives counselling, analysis and support to develop a company's future growth plan. EI's objective is to get more firms involved in R&D activity, to increase the amount of R&D being carried out by existing performers, and to raise the quality of the R&D being undertaken.

Although funding for County Enterprise Boards is routed through Enterprise Ireland, details are not included in the response.