Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 292: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and location of community enterprise centres funded by Enterprise Ireland. [21368/12]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 293: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of businesses supported by each of the community enterprise centres funded by Enterprise Ireland. [21369/12]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 294: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of community enterprise centres funded by Enterprise Ireland that operate upward only rent clauses with their small and medium enterprise tenants. [21370/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 292 to 294, inclusive, together.

There are 132 Community Enterprise Centres that have been completed or approved for funding from Enterprise Ireland and their locations are listed in the following tabular statement.

The number of businesses supported by each Community Enterprise Centre is a day-to-day operational matter for the centre concerned. However, I am informed by Enterprise Ireland that according to a Community Enterprise Centre survey conducted in November 2011, in which 95 centres responded out of 110 centres surveyed, there were 775 tenants in the 95 Community Enterprise Centres that responded to the survey.

Clauses in rent agreements between the Community Enterprise Centres and their tenants are a matter for the parties concerned. However, I understand from Enterprise Ireland that the survey of Community Enterprise Centres found that each respondent centre mentioned that they conduct a yearly review with tenants to examine rent rates and facility charges. These centres stated that they have reduced their rents, in some cases significantly, to compete with private sector market space since the downturn in the economy.

Community Enterprise Centres 2012: