With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions 25 and 26 together.
Since the enactment of the Industrial Development (Encouragement of External Investment) Act, 1958, any manufacturing firm which does not comply with the ordinary shareholding requirements of the Control of Manufactures Acts may, nevertheless, sell up to, but not more than, 10 per cent. of its output on the home market. This restriction applies regardless of whether any grants, loans or other forms of assistance are given by the State. It would not, therefore, be necessary to make any such express stipulation as a condition of the giving of the assistance to firms in that category.
In some cases, however, I am advised by An Foras Tionscal that they have made it a condition of a grant that no part of the output may be disposed of in the home market.