Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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200. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the activities his Department paid for in promoting the Action Plan for Jobs and the various regional Action Plans for Jobs in each of the years since the plan was launched in 2012, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1964/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The costs borne directly by the Department associated with the promotion of the annual Action Plan for Jobs since 2012 and the Regional Action Plans launched in 2015 are outlined in a table. Costs are inclusive of value added tax.

The enterprise agencies, primarily the former Forfás, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, also organised and bore the cost of events associated with the development of the annual Action Plans and the Regional Action Plans since 2012. On many occasions the Department and the agencies were also provided with the use of some facilities for free by industry hosts at some of the launches and quarterly updates.

In addition, in response to repeated industry led calls for greater awareness programmes for Government sponsored enterprise supports in 2014 the Department invited tenders for the development and roll-out of a one year awareness campaign to promote the range of Government supports available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs as well as providing APJ updates through a single, dedicated website, www.actionplanforjobs.ie. The development of this single portal for SMEs and entrepreneurs was also accompanied by a national media campaign during 2015 under the Action Plan for Jobs banner. The total cost for web development and the creative video and radio production costs incurred during 2015 for this campaign was €236,358.