Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 38: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position of an application by a club (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23192/06]

Micheál 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 as part of the statutory responsibility assigned to it by the Oireachtas for the attraction of foreign direct investment to the State and its regions. While I may give general policy directives to IDA Ireland, I am precluded under the Acts from giving directives regarding individual undertakings.

From inquiries which I have made I understand that the Monasterevin GAA Club has been leasing land at Monasterevin from IDA Ireland on an 11 month basis for the last number of years. I further understand that the club has only ever made a verbal request to purchase this land from IDA Ireland. The club has been informed by IDA Property Division that the Agency is in negotiation with Kildare County Council for the transfer of the land in question. While the land at Monasterevin remains in IDA ownership it is, of course, available for qualifying industrial activities.