Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs supported by each local enterprise office on 31 December 2014; 30 September 2015, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34689/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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At the end of 2014, total direct employment among the 6,058 Local Enterprise Office (LEO) client companies stood at 31,326, of which 22,555 were full-time and 8,771 were part-time jobs. Details of the breakdown of LEO employment by individual LEO with total jobs growth in 2014 is set out in Table 1 below.This data was collated as part of an Annual Employment Survey of LEO clients, which is conducted at the end of each year. Accordingly, statistics in relation to the number of jobs created in 2015 in LEO client companies will not be available until early next year.

As part of the reform programme that saw the CEB network dissolved and replaced by new LEOs, each LEO has prepared a Local Enterprise Development Plan (LEDP) for 2015 which sets out the range of new and existing activities that the LEO is pursuing within its functional area during the year to support entrepreneurial development. The LEDPs incorporate a set of metrics for the LEOs, which contain a range of targets such as in relation to job creation, against which their performance will be measured. This is an important new reform that will help to drive performance and results right through the new LEO network.

Table 1: LEO Employment 2014