Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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593. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of local enterprise office and previously county enterprise board supported jobs, by county, and in the case of Dublin, a breakdown 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. [15478/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the “first-stop-shop” for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports to those wishing to start or grow their own business at local level.

The LEOs:

- provide a sign-posting service to all relevant State supports

- offer direct grant aid to micro-enterprises (up to 10 employees) in the manufacturing and internationally traded services sector which, over time, have the potential to develop into strong export entities

- offer “soft” supports in the form of training and mentoring, and

- assist with loan applications to Micro Finance Ireland.

Details of total full-time and part-time jobs in LEO-supported clients from 2014-2016 are shown in the following table.

Please note that overall employment in the LEO client portfolio adjusts from year to year due to transfers in/out of the portfolio to Enterprise Ireland, in addition to the changes arising from jobs directly created and lost by LEO client companies.