Written answers

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Social Enterprise Sector

Photo of Carol NolanCarol 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]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal 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.

Photo of Carol NolanCarol 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]

Photo of Peter BurkePeter 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 €
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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