Written answers

Tuesday, 17 May 2005

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Departmental Properties

9:00 pm

Photo of Billy TimminsBilly Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and location of factories owned by the IDA or Enterprise Ireland; the number of these which are vacant; the rental cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16263/05]

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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IDA Ireland is the agency with statutory responsibility for the attraction of foreign direct investment, FDI, to Ireland and its regions. As part of its responsibilities under those Acts it is also charged with providing property solutions for clients of Enterprise Ireland. The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio, including decisions relating to property rental, are day-to-day operational matters for the agency and not matters in which I have a function.

Following is a list of all IDA-owned buildings and buildings leased from private investors. There is no rental cost associated with these IDA owned buildings. Of the 56 vacant IDA owned buildings, only 13 are available for promotion due to sales or leases in progress. IDA Ireland leases 87 units from the private investors, 34 of which are vacant. For commercial reasons it is not appropriate to provide an itemised list showing the rent paid for each of these factories. However, the total rent payable for vacant buildings is currently in the order of €3.1 million per annum. IDA entered into the leases with private investors in the 1980s when it was policy to encourage investors to construct and finance buildings, mainly outside urban centres, in line with regional investment strategy.

Private Finance IDA Owned
County Occupied Vacant Total Occupied Vacant Total
Cork 11 9 20 12 15 27
Donegal 4 3 7 8 0 8
Dublin 11 6 17 24 18 42
Galway 7 2 9 5 1 6
Kerry 0 0 0 3 10 13
Kildare 2 4 6 0 0 0
Kilkenny 0 0 0 1 1 2
Leitrim 0 0 0 2 1 3
Longford 0 0 0 2 1 3
Louth 0 0 0 1 0 1
Mayo 1 1 2 0 2 2
Monaghan 0 0 0 1 0 1
Offaly 0 0 0 0 1 1
Roscommon 4 0 4 0 2 2
Sligo 0 0 0 1 1 2
Tipperary 0 0 0 0 1 1
Waterford 1 7 8 12 1 13
Westmeath 3 1 4 0 0 0
Wexford 3 1 4 0 0 0
Wicklow 6 0 6 0 1 1
53 34 87 72 56 128

Photo of Billy TimminsBilly Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 198: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all these assets; the purposes for which the proceeds from the sale of same were used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16303/05]

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will supply an inventory of all assets, specifically land and buildings, disposed of by his Department in each of the past ten years; if transactions were in accordance with proper procedures in the case in which such apply; the date of each sale; the location and asset disposed of in each case; the disposal price agreed; and the purchaser involved. [16405/05]

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 198 and 204 together.

The Office of Public Works owns or leases the land and buildings occupied by my Department and issues relating to the sale and disposal of such assets would be a matter for that office. My Department has not sold any assets worth more than €100,000 in the period since 1997.

Photo of Billy TimminsBilly Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 199: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of unused industrial land his Department has in counties Wicklow and Carlow; the estimated value of same, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16322/05]

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The management of IDA Ireland's industrial property portfolio is a day-to-day operational matter for the agency and not one in which I, as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, have a function. I have, however, been informed by IDA Ireland that it has the following promotional land available to market: 34.73 hectares in Wicklow at three locations in Bray, Greystones and Arklow and 25.98 hectares in Carlow at two locations in Bagenalstown and the Carlow business and technology park. Information regarding land valuation is commercially sensitive. It is operating practice in IDA Ireland that valuations of its land banks are not revealed.

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