Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 13 Feb 1979

Vol. 311 No. 6

Written Answers. - Developing Countries Projects.

199.

Mr. Kavanagh

asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs in respect of the year 1978 (a) the Irish semi-State bodies involved in projects in developing countries, other than those projects financed in whole or in part from the Bilateral Aid Programme of his Department, and (b) in the case of each project (i) the nature of the project, (ii) the semi-State body involved, (iii) the total cost, (iv) by whom the cost was borne; (v) the organisation or project-holder in the developing country, (vi) the terms on which the projects were carried out, for example, break-even, semi-commercial or commercial and (vii) the number of semi-State employees involved in each project.

Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. O'Kennedy)

In view of the detail sought by the Deputy and the fact that several semi-State bodies are involved it has not been possible to obtain comprehensive information in the time available but such information as it has been possible to obtain is set out in the attached tables. I am seeking further information and will be happy to make it available to the Deputy if he wishes to repeat the question at a future date.

Year	Nature of Project	Semi-State Body	Total Cost	Cost Borne by	Organisation in developing country	Terms on which project carried out	No. of staff
1978	Investigation into the possibility of Peat Development in Jamaica and Rwanda.	Bord na Móna	Not known	Not known	Dept. of Mining Jamaica and Govt. of Rwanda	Commercial	3
1978	Indentification of Industrial Project in Barbados, Grenada, Guiana, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Tobago suitable for promotion by CID, Brussels.	IDA	£7,000	CID Brussels	—	Break Even	1
1978	World Bank Mission to identify a Small Industries project for Ecuador.	IDA	£3,511	World Bank	—	Break Even	1
1978	Seminar on promotion of foreign industrial investment in Ecuador	IDA	£3,851	Centro de Desarrollo Industrial del Ecuador	CDIE	Break Even	2
1978	Identification mission for small scale Enterprise in OYO & Bendel States in Nigeria.	IDA	£3,312	World Bank	—	Break Even	1
1978	Identification of possible joint ventures with Irish partners for projects in ACP States and provision of general information service to CID Brussels	IDA	£5,600	CID Brussels	—	Break Even	1
1978	Compile, analyse and edit information on specific industrial proposals for presentation at European Management symposium in DAVOS	IDA	£3,000	UNIDO	—	Break Even	1
1978	Guatemala: Publications Seminar	IDA	£722	CENPRO of Guatemala	CENPRO	Break Even	1
1978	In-plant training for 1 Tanzanian	IDA	£170	ILO, Geneva	—	Break Even
1978	In-plant training for 1 Nigerian	IDA	£1,200	European Development Fund, Brussels	Federal Ministry of Industries, Nigeria	Break Even	Cannot quantify
1978	Small Industry course in USA (for developing countries)	IDA	£250	World Bank	World Bank Training Course	Break Even	1
1978	Design of all transmission equipment for commissioning (1978/1985).	ESB	See below	Bahrain State Electricity Directorate	Bahrain State Electricity Directorate	Commercial	See below
	Design of load control centre, building for same and offices. Sub consultants on design of a power station to be commissioned (1982/1985).
	Training and manpower management.
	Secondment of staff to introduce new systems in accounts, consumer, distribution, personnel areas. Training of Bahraini staff in Ireland
	Management of two regional electrification schemes. 12 month training course in ESB for 32 Saudis.	ESB	See below	Electrical Authority of Saudi Arabia	Electrical Authority of Saudi Arabia	Commercial	See below
	Management study of national power corporation in Philippines (virtually completed during 1978).	ESB	See below	World Bank	World Bank Project	Commercial	See below
	Training of 29 Nigerians in Ireland with the ESB	ESB	See below	Electrical Authority of Nigeria	Electrical Authority of Nigeria	Commercial	See below
	Survey and report on training requirements for the Malawi Electrical Authority—some training to be carried out by the ESB in Malawi and some in Ireland	ESB	See below	Electrical Authority of Malawi	Electrical Authority of Malawi	Commercial	See below
1978	Consultancy project in Portugal	CTT	£556	International Trade	Government of Portugal	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Malawi	CTT	£7,384	EEC	Government of Malawi	Break Even	2
	Consultancy project in Mombasa	CTT	£1,077	PRODEC	Government of Kenya	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Jamaica	CTT	£14,009	EEC	Government of Jamaica	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Sri Lanka	CTT	£1,579	ITC	Government of Sri Lanka	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Honduras	CTT	£13,979	EEC	Government of Honduras	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in El Salvador	CTT	£11,460	EEC	Government of El Salvador	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Bangladesh	CTT	£9,510	EEC	Government of Bangladesh	Break Even	2
	Consultancy project in Mauritius	CTT	£10,825	EEC	Government of Mauritius	Break Even	2
	Consultancy project in Jamaica	CTT	£20,754	EEC	Government of Jamaica	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Tunisia	CTT	£476	ITC	Government of Tunisia	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Geneva (for developing countries)	CTT	£540	ITC	Various	Break Even	1
1978	Consultancy project in El Salvador	CTT	£4,820	EEC	Government of El Salvador	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Bahamas	CTT	£18,513	EEC	Government of Bahamas	Break Even	1
	Consultancy project in Honduras	CTT	£10,588	EEC	Government of Honduras	Break Even	2
	Consultancy project in India	CTT	£833	EEC	Government of India	Break Even	2
	Consultancy project in India	CTT	£833	EEC	Government of India	Break Even	2
1978	Pre-feasibility study—Nigeria	An Foras Talúntais	£12,400	Nigeria Federal Government	Owene Ogbesse River Basin Authority	Commercial	6
	Animal Production Research— Sudan	An Foras Talúntais	£200	Ministry of Overseas Development, London	Ministry of Agriculture	Semi-commercial	2
	Fertiliser Use—Trinidad and Tobago	An Foras Talúntais	£4,000	EDF	Ministry of Agriculture	Commercial	4
	Seed Production and protected cropping—Egypt	An Foras Talúntais	£6,040	World Bank	Ministry of Agriculture	Commercial	3
	Dairy Production—Thailand	An Foras Talúntais	£2,000	IFC	Private Enterprise	Commercial	1
	Pig Production—Roumania	An Foras Talúntais	£1,000	World Bank	Ministry of Agriculture	Commercial	1

(1) Nos. employed on all projects in 1978: 125

(2) Total profit for all the projects for the financial year ending 31 March 1978 was £½m.

* The figures for numbers of staff include all staff who actually did work on the particular projects. Some of these will have been only for very s hort periods e.g. one or two weeks, in some cases several man-months.