Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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329. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value of drawdowns issued by each local enterprise office on 31 December 2014; on 30 September 2015; the value of approvals on these dates, for a breakdown of each drawdown and approval by local enterprise office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34692/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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In 2014, the 31 Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) approved a total of €14.359m in grant assistance in respect of 850 projects by their client companies and a total of €10.932m was paid out to clients by the end of the year. Details of the amounts approved and paid by the individual LEOs in 2014 is set out in Table 1 below.In addition, the LEOs also awarded over €2m in investments to winning companies in the inaugural Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) competition, which attracted over 1,000 applications.

Verified information in relation to grant approvals and payments by LEOs to end September 2015 would not yet be fully updated on all the LEO databases.

Table 1: Value of Grants Approved and Paid by LEOs in 2014