More changes afoot for the City and County Enterprise Boards?

Received this today from a friend of mine:

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From: dan.kenny AT enterprise-ireland . com
Sent: 01 March 2010
To: ******************
Subject: eTenders - Notice Cancelled

A notice that you have registered an interest in has been cancelled. The
notice details are shown below.

  Notice ID: JUN120916
      Title: Grant Management Information System
  Authority: Enterprise Ireland

Reason:
The tender process for procurement of a Grant Management Information System for the County Enterprise Boards has been cancelled. We delayed the procurement process in September 2009 in the expectation that it would proceed this year. We apologise to prospective suppliers, but unfortunately we are unable to proceed pending a decision on the future of the County
Enterprise Boards network.

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This may reflect nothing more than the ongoing general uncertainty around a lot of Government programs but it would be useful to have that clarified - with many unemployed people turning to CEB's at present for support in moving towards self-employment that overhanging threat could be counter productive.

Keith

Comments

[Alastair McDermott]

Hi Keith,

It's a very worrying trend. DCEB are in the process of pulling support for some of their projects, in particular their start-up business network (I've written an open letter to the DCEB board on that topic here: http://www.websitedoctor.com/blog/open-letter-to-dceb-board/ )

I don't want to be one of the folks who always sits around giving out about local or national government without doing something about it. If there is something we can do to help EI and the CEB's, e.g. push some of the multinationals for sponsorships, call our local TD or councillor, or anything else, I'd love them to tell us and get folks behind them.

There is so much good will in the business community here at the moment, *despite* the almost crippling recession, NAMA, bailed out banks who won't lend to us, and all the rest of it.

Let's get the Irish business community back on track. I'm in.

Alastair.