Written answers
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Enterprise Ireland Funding
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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628. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the decision not to fund the north Dublin makerspace at DCU as part of the recent REDF (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54914/17]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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On 11 December last I announced the results of the first round of the new competitive Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF).
The REDF is a €60 million competitive fund launched by Enterprise Ireland in 2017, with funding being made available over the period 2017-2020 under two competitive calls.
The Fund, which is an open national competitive call to support regional projects, is provided by my Department, through Enterprise Ireland, and is a key action to support the Regional Action Plan for Jobs and the Action Plan for Rural Development.
Twenty-one successful applicants representing all regions of the country secured up to €30.5m in funding for their projects in the first competitive call.
The REDF is administered by Enterprise Ireland as an open competitive call. The evaluation process was detailed in the publicly available scheme document. All applications underwent the same evaluation process.
Applications were evaluated against the following criteria:
| - | Evaluation Criteria | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impacts and value for money | 30% |
| 2 | Collaboration and Participation | 20% |
| 3 | Viability and sustainability | 20% |
| 4 | Building Regional Strengths | 20% |
| 5 | Significance for Innovation and Capability Building | 10% |
| Total | 100% |
Enterprise Ireland will provide feedback to Makerspace at DCU on its application, and will work with the group to advise it on a revised application if it decides to submit one under the second competitive call.
Enterprise Ireland will also publicly announce future call dates: the second call under the REDF scheme is expected to issue in Q1 2018 and will fund projects from the remaining balance of the €60m budget available.
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