Over 10% Of All Kildare Restart Grant Applications Were Rejected.

Friday, 17 September 2021 07:15

By Ciara Plunkett @plunkettciara

That's according to data from the Dept. of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Over 10% of all Restart Grant applications submitted in Kildare were rejected.

The Restart Grant scheme was launched in May 2020, and was managed locally by city and county councils.

The Dept. of Enterprise, Trade & Employment says 4,171 were lodged to Kildare County Council in all.

Of those, 3,695 were approved, and a combined total of €25,448,466 was paid.

476 applications, with a total value of just over €2 million, were rejected.

RESTART GRANTS SCHEMES
Local Authority	Total Number of Applications	Number of Applications Not Approved	Number of Applications Approved	Total Value of Appeals Funding €	Value of Total Applications Approved €
Carlow	1,467	109	1,358	€0	€7,493,149
Cavan	2,272	194	2,078	€16,722	€9,851,417
Clare	3,185	333	2,852	€332,285	€15,062,331
Cork City	6,458	1,126	5,332	€4,150,702	€36,951,412
Cork County	11,946	1,243	10,703	€0	€34,124,468
Donegal	4,599	207	4,392	€1,279,241	€24,298,505
Dublin City	15,038	2,755	12,283	€3,019,326	€98,022,805
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown	3,780	563	3,217	€723,941	€26,088,577
Fingal	4,646	595	4,051	€400,000	€30,091,628
Galway City	3,244	460	2,784	€1,000,000	€18,897,889
Galway County	4,178	745	3,433	€1,180,744	€17,016,277
Kerry	4,842	692	4,150	€500,000	€23,540,813
Kildare	4,171	476	3,695	€2,001,820	€25,448,466
Kilkenny	2,462	268	2,194	€0	€11,325,394
Laois	1,611	230	1,381	€0	€7,693,446
Leitrim	984	72	912	€0	€4,203,787
Limerick	5,034	517	4,517	€54,692	€26,576,902
Longford	1,407	71	1,336	€400,000	€6,196,951
Louth	3,611	559	3,052	€1,298,948	€18,281,163
Mayo	4,572	604	3,968	€477,033	€20,241,131
Meath	3,681	221	3,460	€562,413	€18,973,679
Monaghan	1,983	85	1,898	€0	€9,357,678
Offaly	1,955	162	1,793	€613,344	€9,167,835
Roscommon	1,779	64	1,715	€505,110	€8,242,244
Sligo	1,850	23	1,827	€566,816	€9,009,109
South Dublin	4,851	1,141	3,710	€500,000	€30,976,222
Tipperary	4,500	227	4,273	€0	€20,401,593
Waterford	3,106	278	2,828	€454,509	€15,779,672
Westmeath	2,441	143	2,298	€61,185	€11,483,918
Wexford	4,460	277	4,183	€1,532,492	€22,534,110
Wicklow	3,267	306	2,961	€591,793	€15,897,283
TOTAL	123,380	14,746	108,634	22,223,116	633,229,854

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