Written answers
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Social Enterprise Sector
Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of all social enterprise organisations or bodies funded by his Department in each year from 2021 to date in 2024; the amount allocated in funding to each during this time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42277/24]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that no funding was allocated to any social enterprise organisations or bodies by my Department from 2021 to 2024.
Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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184. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details of all social enterprise organisations or bodies funded by his Department in each year from 2021 to date in 2024; the amount allocated in funding to each during this time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42269/24]
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Social Enterprises, mostly micro-enterprises or SMEs, are an important and growing part of Ireland’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, creating jobs and stimulating local economic activity, and are recognised as an integral part of Ireland’s broad enterprise policy landscape.
The table below sets out the details of all social enterprise organisations or bodies funded by my Department from 2021 to date in 2024.
Year | Grant | Name | Amount € |
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2024 (to date) | Education, Training and Advisory Service Grant | Irish Congress of Trade Unions | 450,000 |
2023 | Education, Training and Advisory Service Grant | Irish Congress of Trade Unions | 900,000 |
2023 | Annual Funding | European Consumer Centre Ireland | 434,571 |
2023 | Countess Markievicz lecture | Irish Association for Industrial Relations | 500 |
2022 | Education, Training and Advisory Service Grant | Irish Congress of Trade Unions | 853,880 |
2022 | Annual Funding | European Consumer Centre Ireland | 280,916 |
2022 | Countess Markievicz lecture | Irish Association for Industrial Relations | 1,000 |
2021 | Education, Training and Advisory Service Grant | Irish Congress of Trade Unions | 865,941 |
2021 | Annual Funding | European Consumer Centre Ireland | 260,559 |
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