At the 9th Action Plan for Jobs 2012 Forum last Tuesday in Galway, the Minster for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr Richard Bruton TD, presented a new leaflet detailing the schemes that start-up companies can apply to for government help.
According to a press release from his department, only a marginal number of those qualified to benefit from start-up schemes actually avail of them. The Revenue Job Assist Scheme, for example, which allows a double write-off (for 3 years) of both wages and PRSI when hiring someone who has been on the live register for 12 months, was only used in 650 cases in 2010. However 200,000 people could benefit from it, according to the press release. 2010 is the last year that figures are available for.
