Written answers
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Enterprise Support Services
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Enterprise Ireland supported companies that are currently located within each county; the number of site visits that were conducted by Enterprise Ireland in each county in the past five years respectively; the amount of funding that was expended by Enterprise Ireland in each county in the past five years respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32875/21]
Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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In 2020, Enterprise Ireland assisted companies employed 220,613 people nationally with 65 per cent of this employment located outside of Dublin.
Enterprise Ireland is the Government agency responsible essentially for the start-up, scaling and internationalisation of Irish owned enterprises. Enterprise Ireland do not arrange site visits in the way that IDA Ireland showcases the merits of locations to foreign direct investment companies considering investing or expanding in Ireland.
The following two tables respectively show the number of Enterprise Ireland supported companies that are currently located within each county and the amount of funding that was expended by Enterprise Ireland in each county in the past five years and to date in 2021.
By County | No. of Companies | By County | No. of Companies |
---|---|---|---|
Carlow | 89 | Louth | 156 |
Cavan | 81 | Mayo | 124 |
Clare | 140 | Meath | 175 |
Cork | 607 | Monaghan | 107 |
Donegal | 138 | Offaly | 63 |
Dublin | 2,323 | Roscommon | 54 |
Galway | 287 | Sligo | 74 |
Kerry | 128 | Tipperary | 131 |
Kildare | 202 | Waterford | 146 |
Kilkenny | 119 | Westmeath | 103 |
Laois | 52 | Wexford | 119 |
Leitrim | 23 | Wicklow | 159 |
Limerick | 267 | ||
Longford | 45 | Grand Total | 5,912 |
Payments – County By Year | 2021 (YTD 15.06.21) | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | Grand Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlow | €1,288,314 | €1,907,989 | €1,385,421 | €864,971 | €1,199,491 | €1,834,746 | €8,480,933 |
Cavan | €1,754,657 | €4,844,256 | €2,092,337 | €3,947,874 | €2,567,272 | €5,550,545 | €20,756,941 |
Clare | €2,266,871 | €4,401,422 | €2,471,877 | €1,934,936 | €4,028,747 | €1,862,171 | €16,966,022 |
Cork | €10,054,246 | €21,111,137 | €12,479,508 | €8,694,269 | €9,876,190 | €12,508,401 | €74,723,750 |
Donegal | €3,072,474 | €4,700,041 | €1,092,916 | €1,320,819 | €1,774,212 | €646,235 | €12,606,697 |
Dublin | €35,968,721 | €61,436,757 | €28,616,890 | €32,757,095 | €34,646,681 | €36,402,629 | €229,828,775 |
Galway | €6,234,134 | €12,713,629 | €5,429,928 | €5,738,421 | €5,165,829 | €4,425,413 | €39,707,354 |
Kerry | €4,624,928 | €6,818,501 | €6,962,695 | €2,448,215 | €2,732,963 | €3,132,374 | €26,719,676 |
Kildare | €2,918,187 | €5,044,763 | €6,032,492 | €4,235,477 | €3,560,079 | €5,724,828 | €27,515,827 |
Kilkenny | €481,740 | €5,059,759 | €9,960,817 | €2,612,327 | €2,768,019 | €1,926,084 | €22,808,747 |
Laois | €4,681,117 | €4,505,284 | €1,060,064 | €574,495 | €345,759 | €892,958 | €12,059,676 |
Leitrim | €129,712 | €678,279 | €117,079 | €359,030 | €151,065 | €344,370 | €1,779,534 |
Limerick | €3,267,912 | €4,782,678 | €3,258,410 | €4,268,946 | €3,026,032 | €3,354,559 | €21,958,536 |
Longford | €122,888 | €2,127,477 | €2,036,885 | €3,750,876 | €1,029,648 | €1,007,560 | €10,075,335 |
Louth | €3,864,627 | €6,488,896 | €2,462,115 | €3,071,051 | €4,146,472 | €5,813,604 | €25,846,764 |
Mayo | €3,108,433 | €1,606,420 | €1,701,547 | €1,042,010 | €5,028,555 | €1,854,443 | €14,341,408 |
Meath | €2,851,019 | €3,515,704 | €2,104,967 | €1,166,149 | €1,282,688 | €2,123,429 | €13,043,955 |
Monaghan | €3,570,552 | €2,165,481 | €1,938,934 | €2,210,723 | €7,300,005 | €2,765,121 | €19,950,816 |
Offaly | €631,903 | €3,015,361 | €1,244,512 | €1,047,940 | €1,431,927 | €1,082,892 | €8,454,534 |
Roscommon | €437,612 | €1,699,660 | €412,107 | €161,569 | €1,524,042 | €844,931 | €5,079,921 |
Sligo | €884,088 | €691,628 | €707,044 | €773,377 | €1,002,481 | €1,044,235 | €5,102,854 |
Tipperary | €3,398,713 | €8,117,089 | €4,324,181 | €2,313,497 | €2,641,156 | €1,763,417 | €22,558,053 |
Waterford | €1,882,614 | €3,022,531 | €1,180,799 | €1,761,644 | €1,195,887 | €876,002 | €9,919,475 |
Westmeath | €3,318,235 | €2,032,503 | €988,985 | €1,507,502 | €1,181,757 | €1,465,780 | €10,494,762 |
Wexford | €1,842,084 | €5,684,223 | €1,580,996 | €4,681,975 | €2,174,112 | €1,000,154 | €16,963,544 |
Wicklow | €3,639,946 | €1,657,594 | €2,901,951 | €4,032,042 | €1,824,436 | €2,015,701 | €16,071,670 |
Grand Total | €106,295,727 | €179,829,061 | €104,545,457 | €97,277,230 | €103,605,503 | €102,262,581 | €693,815,558 |
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