1073. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number and value of grants approved by each local enterprise office in each local authority area in each of the past ten years, broken down by scheme, together with the number of jobs created and sustained, in tabular form. [58880/26]

The Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), located within the 31 Local Authorities, 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.

Local Enterprise Offices offer direct grant assistance to small businesses, aimed at those in the manufacturing and internationally traded services sectors, and also provide consultancy and grants to small businesses in all sectors, in the areas of Green, Digital and Lean. These grants are focused to assist in implementation of recommendations to digitalise or decarbonise a business.

For the number and value of grants approved from 2016-2025 please see Table 1 attached to this answer.

The 2025 Annual Employment Survey of Local Enterprise Offices details positive job creation across all Local Enterprise Offices nationwide. Employment among the 7,148 LEO grant-aided businesses increased by 7 per cent compared with the 2024 employment return, with a total of 7,261 new jobs created nationally in 2025. The LEO 2025 figures represent a 12th consecutive year of jobs growth since the LEOs were established in 2014.

Please see Table 2 attached, for Annual Employment Survey results from 2016 to 2025.

Table 1 and 2