COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

QUESTION NO. 17

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to engage with Enterprise Ireland to propose and actively seek an extension of the Community Enterprise Centre Business Development Programme 2012 for the purposes of securing funding for the provision of new Centres in areas such as Lucan not currently serviced.

REPLY:

Details are awaited in relation to the proposed programme in "Action Plan for Jobs 2012" which states:

Establish a new Community Enterprise Development Programme for the maintenance or establishment of a strong business development function in the Community Enterprise Centres funded by Enterprise Ireland.  This will see up to 30 centres benefit from a full-time business development function, providing a 50% grant towards eligible costs or €50,000 over two years.

In the meantime, whilst it appears that this objective refers to existing Centres, this Council will engage with Enterprise Ireland through the economic sub-group of the County Development Board in respect of the Community Enterprise Centre Business Development Programme 2012 to identify the potential for providing such a centre in the Lucan Area.