Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has engaged with local enterprise offices on their funding allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43494/21]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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In preparation for Budget 2022, my Department has been liaising with all its business units, and the offices and agencies under its remit, including with the unit responsible for the Local Enterprise Offices, as to their funding requirements for the coming year.

I and my officials will engage in bi-lateral discussions on these funding requirements with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his Department in the coming weeks.

It is my intention that the outcome of these discussions will ensure the Local Enterprise Offices are adequately funded to continue to carry out the vital role that they play in enterprise development throughout every community in the country.