Written answers

Thursday, 19 May 2022

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Enterprise Support Services

Photo of Joe CareyJoe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the disbursement of the trading online voucher scheme for 2021; the amount of funding and number of recipients per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24911/22]

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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The Trading Online Voucher Scheme (TOVs) offers a voucher of up to €2,500 (50% co- funded by the applicant) to help businesses develop their online trading capability and includes training sessions that cover various topics, including developing a website, digital marketing, social media for business and search engine optimisation.

The information provided is impartial and will assist applicants in deciding what trading online options are right for their business. Funding can be used towards adding payment facilities or booking systems to their website or developing new apps for their customers. The voucher can also be used towards subscriptions to low cost online retail platform solutions, to help companies quickly establish a retailing presence online.

This scheme is demand led and the annual targets and allocations provided to each Local Enterprise Office to meet this demand are based on historical uptake and anticipated demand.

The Local Enterprise Offices are units within each of the 31 Local Authorities and the below table shows the number and value of approvals for each of these for 2021.

LEO Approvals Value of Approvals €
Carlow 74 € 160,624.00
Cavan 52 € 107,476.00
Clare 120 € 300,000.00
Cork City 236 € 510,143.00
Cork N/W 191 € 415,985.00
South Cork 82 € 159,871.00
Donegal 133 € 284,646.00
Dublin City 636 € 1,449,148.00
South Dublin 155 € 387,500.00
Dun Laoghaire 251 € 512,559.00
Fingal 335 € 736,485.00
Galway 307 € 767,500.00
Kerry 183 € 373,923.00
Kildare 125 € 221,578.00
Kilkenny 88 € 193,892.00
Laois 70 € 153,747.00
Leitrim 31 € 77,500.00
Limerick 127 € 257,037.00
Longford 32 € 69,750.00
Louth 109 € 227,956.00
Mayo 161 € 336,318.00
Meath 165 € 324,316.00
Monaghan 27 € 52,565.00
Offaly 40 € 90,184.00
Roscommon 42 € 74,923.00
Sligo 62 € 122,357.00
Tipperary 88 € 158,893.00
Waterford 97 € 197,609.00
Westmeath 132 € 292,526.00
Wexford 163 € 330,747.00
Wicklow 128 € 268,059.00
TOTAL 4,442 € 9,615,817.00

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