Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

495. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of businesses that were awarded online trading vouchers in 2017, by county. [3333/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

My Department's Trading Online Voucher Scheme is designed to support micro businesses (10 or less employees, less than €2 million turnover) to develop their trading online capability. The scheme specifically targets businesses who are not yet trading online or doing so in a very limited away. This is a demand-led scheme, which is funded by my Department, and delivered in every county by the Local Enterprise Office.

The process of reporting on the Trading Online Voucher Scheme end-year outturn is currently underway. The following table provides preliminary information on the number of successful applications in each county in 2017. It indicates that over 1,000 businesses throughout Ireland were awarded a trading online voucher in 2017.