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Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan designed to create jobs and grow companies

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Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan is designed to generate projects which create jobs and help companies grow in the region. 

Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan designed to create jobs and grow companies

Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan

The new Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan outlines a number of actions and strategic objectives for delivery between now and 2024.

Mayor of Limerick City and County, Daniel Butler, has welcomed the launch of the new Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan, along with a national fund of up to €180 million to support projects aimed at boosting regional enterprise development. 


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The government launched the new Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan, which is designed to generate projects which create jobs and help companies to grow in the region. 

The plan has been developed by a Regional Steering Committee, chaired in the Mid-West by Professor Eamonn Murphy and including the Enterprise Agencies, Local Enterprise Offices, the Local Authorities, Regional Assembly, higher and further education bodies and local industry leaders among others.  

It outlines a number of actions and strategic objectives for delivery between now and 2024. 

The five strategic objectives are Digitalisation and innovation, Sustainability, Enterprise in regional towns/ rural areas, Supporting SME, start-ups and microbusiness and Social enterprise and tackling areas of high unemployment.

 The new Regional Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) will have up to €180million in funding nationally, to support the development and implementation of collaborative and innovative projects that can enable and sustain enterprise and employment growth in the regions. 

Over the lifetime of the previous plan (2017 to 2020) the Mid-West region secured over €16m in REDF funding across eight projects including the ENGINE Collaboration Centre in Limerick City, Future Mobility Campus in Shannon, National BioEconomy Campus in Tipperary and regionally based business clusters in the Aerospace and Social Enterprise sectors. 

 Mayor of the City and County of Limerick Cllr Daniel Butler said, “This plan lays the foundations for the development of enterprise right across Limerick and the wider region. It will help us to capitalise on our strengths to provide a meaningful return on the investment so that Limerick and the mid-west can continue to be seen as innovators and risk-takers”. 

Dr Pat Daly, Chief Executive of Limerick City and County Council commented, “I welcome the publication of this new Mid-West Regional Enterprise Plan which will ensure that the mid-west becomes a leading region for innovation and digital technology while becoming Ireland’s leading sustainable low carbon region and I particularly welcome the commitments in the plan to develop the social enterprise sector and specific job creation initiatives for areas with high unemployment”. 

 The Midwest Regional Enterprise Plan is available HERE

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