Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created and the number of jobs lost in the Shannon free zone in the past five years; and the net gain or loss of jobs. [25121/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Shannon Development is responsible for promoting foreign direct investment in the Shannon Free Zone. The number of jobs gained and lost in the Shannon Free Zone in the five year period 2003 to 2007 is shown in the following tabular statement.

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of employment in the Shannon free zone; the number of new companies that have announced that they are to establish themselves in the Shannon free zone in the past three years; and the number of jobs each company will provide. [25122/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Shannon Development is responsible for promoting foreign direct investment in the Shannon Free Zone. At the end of 2007, the latest date for which figures are available, employment at Shannon Free Zone was 7,047.

In the three year period 2005 to 2007, a total of 9 companies signalled their intentions to establish at Shannon Free Zone with the potential to create more than 500 new jobs. For reasons of client confidentiality it is not possible at this stage to indicate the potential number of new jobs to be created by each individual company. I am also glad to say, that, in February 2008, Zimmer Orthopaedics announced its intention to establish an Orthopaedics manufacturing project at Shannon with a potential to create a further 250 jobs.