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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 14 Feb 1962

Vol. 193 No. 1

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - State Capital Investment at Shannon.

97.

asked the Minister for Transport and Power the amount of State capital up to the present involved in (a) Shannon Airport and (b) the Shannon Airport Industrial Estate.

The total amount of State capital expended on Shannon Airport up to the 31st December, 1961, was £4.8m. As at the same date, State capital amounting to about £2.1m. had been expended on the Shannon Free Airport Industrial Estate, made up as follows:—

£

Share capital taken up by the Minister for Finance in the Shannon Free Airport Development Company Ltd.

1,430,000

Repayable advances issued by the Minister for Finance to the Company

283,000

Non-repayable grants to industrialists

352,000

£2,065,000

What was the highest employment given in the Shannon Free Airport Industrial Estate at the date to which those figures refer?

I am afraid I have not got those figures.

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