Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total number of businesses in each local authority that were funded under the restart grant scheme; and the total amount in euro given to support businesses under the scheme, by county, in tabular form. [8045/23]

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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My Department, through the enterprise development agencies, provides a range of tailored supports for enterprises of all sizes in Ireland and provided emergency funding during the COVID crisis and now the energy crisis. Supports include grants and softer supports such as access to finance, management development, mentoring supports, business development programmes, market supports and trade promotion.

The Restart Grant was designed as an emergency measure during the COVID crisis to get money to businesses quickly to defray ongoing fixed costs or for measures to ensure employee and customer safety and was operated by the 31 Local Authorities on behalf of my Department.

Restart Grants provided funding to 108,489 businesses totalling €632.4 million. The Local Authority breakdown is attached in tabular form.

Restart Grant Statistics