Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for not being available for all of the meeting. Perhaps the issues I want to raise have been raised so I hope our guests will bear with me.

I thank the Department for the work done in a very difficult 24 months and for the progress it made in retaining jobs and helping to create new jobs. With regard to a review of jobs over the last five years, we spoke in the last meeting about value for money and retention of jobs. Has an analysis been done by the IDA and the Department in regard to job creation where support grants were provided in order to find out, five years on, what number of those jobs are still in place and whether we got value for money for the grants paid out in different areas? Has detailed analysis been done on that by the Department in the last few months?