Written answers
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
Enterprise Support Services
9:00 am
John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 352: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of businesses in County Waterford that applied for funding from Enterprise Ireland in each of the past three years and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43901/10]
Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of businesses in County Waterford that applied for funding from Enterprise Ireland (EI) for each of the past 3 years and to date in 2010 are set out in the following tabular statement.
The number of applications in 2009 in Co Waterford is considerably higher than in other years due to the Employment Subsidy Scheme (Temporary) which was introduced in 2009 to help employees maintain their jobs while at the same time assisting employers to retain their productive capacity.
Year | No. of Businesses in Co. Waterford applying for EI funding |
2007 | 50 |
2008 | 60 |
2009 | 149 |
2010 to date | 26 |
John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 353: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of businesses nationally that applied for funding from Enterprise Ireland in each of the past three years and to date in 2010; the number of those businesses that were given funding by Enterprise Ireland in that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43902/10]
Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of businesses nationally that applied for funding and received funding from Enterprise Ireland in each of the past three years and to date in 2010 are set out in the following tabular statement.
The number of applications in 2009 is considerably higher than in other due to the Employment Subsidy Scheme (Temporary) which was introduced in 2009 to help employees maintain their jobs while at the same time assisting employers to retain their productive capacity.
Year | No. of Companies Applying for Funding | No. of Companies Approved for funding |
2007 | 1263 | 1184 |
2008 | 1371 | 1296 |
2009 | 4327 | 2757 |
2010 to date | 1013 | 758 |
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