Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 428: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the 2007 annual report for a statutory body (details supplied) will be published. [39207/08]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 430: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of people employed in a statutory body (details supplied); and the amount that has been paid in salaries, travel expenses per year for the past five years. [39223/08]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 431: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the money spent by a fund (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the location at which the money was spent; the number of jobs created; and the names of the companies which money from the fund was given too. [39224/08]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 428, 430 and 431 together.

The 2007 Annual Report for the Western Development Commission is available in the Dáil Library and on the WDC website at www.wdc.ie. Details of staff numbers and amounts paid in salaries, travel expenses for the past five years are provided in the following table.

The requested information on disbursals from the Western Investment Fund for the last five years is provided in the following tables.

(3) Jobs Created 2004-2008

WIF funding has helped to create or sustain approximately 835 jobs directly in the companies funded during 2004 to 2008. This figure does not take account of the indirect jobs that are also created as a result of Western Investment Fund investment.