Vol. 231 No. 10
asked the Taoiseach the total value of imported raw materials purchased by all the industries in the Shannon industrial estate for the most recent year for which figures are available; and the percentage of these imports, and their value, which came from the non-sterling area.
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asked the Taoiseach the total value of exports from the Shannon industrial estate in the year 1966-67; and the percentage and value of these exports which went to the non-sterling area.
With your permission, Sir, I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 and 5 together. Exports from Shannon Free Airport Industrial Estate during 1966, the latest year for which data are available, are estimated at £28.6 million, of which £19.4 million (approximately 68 per cent) went to the non-sterling area. In the same period imports into the estate are estimated at £21.5 million, of which £5.1 million (approximately 24 per cent) came from the non-sterling area.
Would it be correct to say, then, that the net exports would be in the order of £6 million or £7 million?
The estimate is £28.6 million——
Net export?
——of which £19.4 million, approximately 68 per cent, went to the non-sterling area.
Imports?
I presume the raw materials——
What did they amount to?
£21.5 million.
So the net exports would be in the order of £6 million or £7 million?
I should not care——
——to do the sum on your feet?
If you subtract imports from exports, you get a figure of the kind the Deputy has mentioned.
Deputy Carty will be well able to do it if he puts his mind to it. Subtract one from the other. There is no better man.
