Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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236. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created in 2017 by companies that received financial support from the local enterprise offices by county; the number in Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and south County Dublin; the number in Cork city and County Cork in 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14609/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for providing advice and guidance, financial assistance and ‘soft’ supports in the form of training and mentoring to anyone wishing to start or grow a business.

The LEOs provide a ‘signposting’ service in relation to all relevant state supports available through agencies such as Revenue, the Department of Social Protection, Education and Training Boards, the Credit Review Office and Microfinance Ireland. The LEOs also offer advice and guidance in areas such as local authority rates, public procurement and other regulations affecting business.

Details of the number of new full- and part-time jobs created in gross terms amongst LEO supported companies in 2017 are set out in the following table.