Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have the details to hand of the number of pre-budget submissions made, but I will have it determined and come back to the Deputy on the issue. The question has been asked many times whether the special assignee relief programme, SARP, was introduced at the request of the IFSC Clearing House Group. It was introduced in the Finance Bill 2012 and no changes were proposed in the Finance Bill 2013. It is relevant to a range of priority areas heavily dependent on highly skilled personnel. They include the IFSC, but it is not a specific measure for it. It applies as much to the ICT sector or the life sciences, as it does to financial services. The strategy we launched sets out the scale of the potential to create new jobs determined by the industry on the basis of areas of expansion considered appropriate for the creation of new jobs. I will get back to the Deputy with an accurate figure for the number of jobs created since the document was launched some time ago.

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