Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grants her Department has provided to social enterprise representative bodies since October 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43274/24]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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As per the definition of a social enterprise in the Department of Rural and Community Development’s publication Trading for Impact, the National Social Enterprise Strategy 2024 - 2027 - 'a social enterprise is defined as an enterprise whose objective is to achieve a social or environmental impact, rather than maximising profit for its owners or shareholders. It pursues its objectives by trading on an ongoing basis through the provision of goods and/or services, and by reinvesting surpluses fully or primarily into achieving social objectives. It is governed in a fully accountable and transparent manner and is independent of the public sector. If dissolved, it should transfer its assets to another organisation with a similar mission.'

Details of payments made by my Department to the following bodies from 2023 to date is outlined in tabular format below:

As part of the annual UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17th October), my Department made payments to the following bodies in 2023 and 2024: