Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the national policy statement on entrepreneurship; the number of actions completed and not completed respectively; and the timeframe for implementation. [4048/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Government’s National Policy Statement on Entrepreneurship in Ireland was published in 2014 as a comprehensive national Strategy for entrepreneurship over 5 years. We have reached the mid-point of the lifespan of the NPSE and the Department of Business has prepared a mid-term review under Action 45 of the 2017 Action Plan for Jobs. It is intended that this mid-term review will be published shortly.

As a core part of the midterm review stakeholder’s engagement meetings were organised under three pillars: education; state bodies; and entrepreneurs with related representative bodies.

These meetings were held between May and June 2017. Additional feedback was gathered from the participants of the Forum of the female entrepreneurship programme “Going for Growth” and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Alumni Board.

In addition to stakeholder consultation the mid-term review includes National and International Performance Indicators, an analysis of a Mapping of the Support Environment carried out by DBEI, a summary of key actions, and data on the creation of new businesses in Ireland.

Of the 96 Actions outlined in the NPSE, 60 have been completed and others are ongoing in nature. The monitoring of the actions contained within the NPSE remains a priority and will continue throughout 2018.

The NPSE covers the period from 2014 until the end of 2019. It is intended that a final review will be conducted in 2020 on conclusion of the period covered by the NPSE.