Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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858. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the net number of jobs provided, by each local enterprise office, in each local authority area in each of the years 2015 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form [40762/25]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Government is committed to supporting small businesses across the country and to supporting job creation, both of which the Local Enterprise Offices play a key role in. The LEOs play an extremely important role at local level, as part of a supportive ecosystem, providing their services direct to small businesses and promoting entrepreneurship within towns and communities across the country.

Since their establishment in 2014, the LEOs have delivered consistent jobs growth, business advice, training and mentoring, and have assisted many businesses to transition to Enterprise Ireland, further developing their exporting ability and increasing their growth potential.

The LEO Annual Employment Survey reports on the number of small businesses and jobs that are supported through direct financial grant assistance from the LEO network nationwide and does not include the number of small businesses and associated jobs that have received training, mentoring or other supports such as the Grow Digital Voucher, Green for Business, Lean for Business, Digital for Business and Energy Efficiency Grants (EEG).

The net jobs reported annually takes into account any job losses in the portfolio from company amalgamation, transfers from LEOs to Enterprise Ireland, a cessation of trading and an inability to fill vacant rolls the net gains shown in these reports.

The table below shows the net jobs within the LEOs network for the period from 2015 – 2024.