Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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582. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of local enterprise offices; the number of staff that work in each office in tabular form; the number of staff that work in the LEO section of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19341/19]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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There are 31 Local Enterprise Office (LEOs) located across the Local Authority network in Ireland. The LEOs are the ‘first-stop-shop’ for advice and guidance, financial assistance and other supports for anyone intending to start or grow a business.

Table 1 below sets out the number of sanctioned LEO staff through the DBEI pay allocation for each of the 31 LEOs.

In respect to my Department there are 5 DBEI staff with specific LEO Liaison Unit responsibilities comprising one Principal Officer, one Assistant Principal Officer, one Higher Executive Officer, one Executive Officer and one Clerical Officer.

Table 1: