Séamus Kirk (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Enterprise Ireland are planning to financially support the new milk processing unit, Belview County Waterford, in view of the significant job creation potential of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47761/12]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Any decision by Enterprise Ireland to fund projects, including those in the dairy processing sector, is a day-to-day matter for the Agency and I have no function in this regard. In relation to public funds paid to enterprises, details of individual offers of support from Enterprise Ireland to each client company are confidential and will vary, depending on the type of support being sought.

I understand from Enterprise Ireland that they have been engaged in discussions with the major dairy processors over the past eighteen months, as a follow-up to the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Food Harvest 2020 Strategy Report published in 2010, by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Enterprise Ireland publishes each year a detailed schedule of financial support payments made to its client companies for the previous year. This information is listed by client-company at county level. These reports are available directly from Enterprise Ireland.