Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of local enterprise office and previously county enterprise board supported jobs on a county basis, and in the case of Dublin, between Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and south Dublin, for 2014, 2015 and 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8064/17]

Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of local enterprise office and previously county enterprise board supported clients on a county basis and in the case of Dublin, between Dublin city, Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown, Fingal and south Dublin, for 2014, 2015 and 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8065/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 626 and 627 together.

The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice, signposting, financial assistance, training, mentoring, and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business.

Given the broad remit of the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), their engagement with customers takes many forms: from drop-in visits; telephone calls; emails and meetings to social media contacts via platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn among others.

Given the range of contact options, Enterprise Ireland has initiated a project to develop a single Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS) for use by all the LEOs. The aim of the CRMS project is to support a more structured and holistic approach to contact management in a consistent manner across all of the LEOs.

Details of the number of client companies and the number of jobs sustained in each of the LEOs in 2014 and 2015 are set out in the following table. Data for 2016 is currently being finalised and will be available shortly. 

It should be noted that the client numbers listed in the following table refer to microenterprises that have received only Measure 1 grant assistance (ie to support a start-up or business expansion).