Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the State funding that his Department has awarded to foreign private companies and to indigenous private companies in 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29340/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The total grants paid to IDA’s foreign owned client companies in each of the years from 2011 to 2014 are as follows:

In 2011, €96,757,220; in 2012, €89,326,201; in 2013 €87,951,297 and in 2014 a total of €88,439,463 was paid.

Grants paid to IDA Ireland companies for 2015 to date will not be available for publication until auditing is complete in due course.

The total grants paid by Enterprise Ireland’s client companies, the vast majority of which are indigenous but include a very small number of foreign companies in the food and drink sector, in each of the years from 2011 to 2014 are as follows:

In 2011, €105,577,468 was paid; in 2012, €103,029,340; in 2013, €89,401,304 and in 2014, €91,249, 803. Payments made to date in 2015 amount to €35,526,447.

It should be noted that these payments by Enterprise Ireland exclude payments to Employment Subsidy Scheme recipients, Infrastructural clients, Shannon Free Zone Transfers and Community Enterprise Centres.

Information in relation to the amount of State funding awarded to indigenous private companies by the County Enterprise Boards/Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) from 2011 to 2014 is as follows:

In 2011, a total of €12,238,911 was paid; in 2012, €12,169,632; in 2013, €11,496,596 and in 2014 a total of €10,931, 992 was paid. Details in respect of LEO payments for 2015 to date are not yet to hand.

In relation to payments by all these bodies it should be appreciated that Grants paid in a particular year are not necessarily linked to either the investments won or the jobs created in that year.