Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome the Minister and his officials. The projects he mentioned are very worthy and strong. I am concerned it is coming from an EI underspend in the grant to industry. The Minister glossed over that a little. Will he give an idea of how much we will take from the EI spend? When was the underspend in this subhead anticipated? I cannot imagine EI giving money particularly as it has had really good programmes such as the women in enterprise programme which is completely over subscribed and will not have enough funding. Will an additional allocation be made to EI for this next year?

The Minister mentioned property related contractual obligations and the day-to-day costs of running business parks. Will he go into a little more detail on this? Given where we are now with regard to property has the IDA renegotiated its property related contractual obligations downwards in line with the markets?