Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific funding streams available to local authorities to apply for; the amount that has been given by county; the amount awarded under each scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4053/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme enables public sector bodies to connect with small businesses to provide innovative solutions to societal problems. SBIR falls under pre-commercial procurement and enables public bodies to purchase research to stimulate innovation, when goods or services are currently not available in the marketplace. It is managed by Enterprise Ireland who refund the public sector bodies for up to 50% of the project costs.

The amounts of funding received by local authorities under the SBIR scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2021 are set out in the table below.

The Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus Schemes were introduced as COVID19 business support measures on foot of Government Decisions and operated by the 31 Local Authorities from May 2020 to October 2020. These schemes were demand led and not operated by a funding scheme that local authorities could apply for.

The table below sets out the total amount of applications paid and corresponding monetary values for the Restart Grant and Restart Grant Plus Schemes for the total duration of the schemes and as at 11 January 2021.