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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 28 Apr 1964

Vol. 209 No. 4

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Kerry Food Processing Factories.

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asked the Minister for Finance what is the present position regarding the proposed food processing factories in Kerry; where they will be located; how much has been subscribed for them by local enterprise; and how much State support it is proposed to provide either from the funds of the Sugar Company or from the Exchequer.

Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann, Teo., has informed the local groups interested in establishing food processing factories in the Causeway and Killorglin areas of Kerry that club root disease was found on investigation to be so widespread, and that the reduction this would mean in available land was so great that the company saw no possibility of establishing a viable industry in either of these areas alone. The company considered, however, that, provided stringent precautions were enforced to prevent the spread of the disease, there was sufficient disease-free land in the two areas taken together to support a single factory of economic capacity in North Kerry. The company, therefore, proposed to the local groups that the Causeway and Killorglin enterprises should amalgamate and that, as neither of the existing sites could serve the whole area economically, a new location should be chosen which would be able to do so.

The matter is at present, I understand, with the local groups and in the circumstances there is nothing I can usefully say regarding the other matters mentioned by the Deputy.

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