Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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549. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total euro investment made by Enterprise Ireland companies in each county in the past five years; how many jobs were created in each county by Enterprise Ireland companies in each of the past five years; and how many Enterprise Ireland company jobs are in each county in the State. [37181/23]

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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From 2018 to 2022 Enterprise Ireland (EI) made direct payments of €777,540,964 to its client companies. In total 31.6% of these payments were made to companies based in Dublin, with 68.4% made to companies outside the Dublin region.

Over the same period there were over 90,000 jobs created by EI client companies despite the recent very challenging years faced by Irish businesses at home and globally.

At year end 2022, there were 218,178 people employed in EI client companies, following a strong year, with the creation of 19,660 new jobs and growth in net employment of 5%. This compares favourably with the latest CSO Labour Force Survey for 2022 which showed an increase of 3.4% in total employment across the economy.

The table below illustrates the figures in relation to EI investment and job creation per county for the years 2018 - 2022.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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550. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total euro investment made by Local Enterprise Office-supported businesses in each county in the past five years; how many jobs were created in each county by Local Enterprise Office-supported businesses in each of the past five years; and how many Local Enterprise Office-supported businesses jobs are in each county in the State. [37182/23]

Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The LEOs only retain data in relation to investments made by firms relevant to a claim for direct financial grant assistance.

The below table includes the reported investment by LEO clients in relation to Priming, Business Expansion, Feasibility, TAME, Gradstart, Agile, R&D, IP Start, IP Plus and Green Start:

Below are the new jobs created by LEO clients per county over the past 5 years:

Below are the jobs supported by LEO clients per county in the past 5 years:

Total Jobs- 2018 to 2022

It is also worth noting that these tables only account for the investment and job creation that can be directly attributed to successful grant applications. The LEOs also provide significant assistance to the growth and development of small businesses through other interventions including Training and Development, Productivity and Competitiveness programmes, Mentoring and the Trading Online Vouchers.