Joe Higgins
Ceist:78 Mr. Higgins (Dublin West ) asked the Minister for Public Enterprise if she will give a list of companies to which financial grants totalling £5 million or more were supplied in 1996. [15127/97]
Vol. 480 No. 7
78 Mr. Higgins (Dublin West ) asked the Minister for Public Enterprise if she will give a list of companies to which financial grants totalling £5 million or more were supplied in 1996. [15127/97]
No financial grants were paid by my Department in 1996. In the case of Córas Iompair Éireann, a statutory corporation, £99.46 million was paid in 1996, to provide socially necessary but commercially unviable services.