Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs created in the Information Age Park, Ennis, County Clare in 2007 and 2008 and for the first quarter of 2009; the number of people and companies working in the IAPE at the end of 2008 and end of March 2009; the money spent by Shannon Development on the park to date; the amount of money Shannon Development has received in revenues from the park through land sales and leasing arrangements since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22236/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Information Age Park Ennis is a strategic investment by Shannon Development in enterprise support infrastructure that will position Ennis and Clare generally to win new technology and knowledge economy investment projects. Statistics in response to the question are in the attached tables.

Shannon Development acts in a landlord capacity in the Information Age Park, Ennis (IAPE) with a view to facilitating the development of both foreign direct investment and indigenous industry. Most of the tenants in the IAPE are small firms who would not have otherwise engaged with the national industrial development agencies such as the IDA and Enterprise Ireland. The management of the individual elements of the Shannon Development property programme is a day-to-day operational matter for the agency and not one in which I have a function. While I may give general policy directives to IDA and Enterprise Ireland, I am precluded from giving directives regarding individual undertakings or from giving preference to one location over others.

Shannon Development have spent the following amounts on the Information Age Park to date:

Shannon Development has received the following revenues from the Information Age Park through land sales and leasing arrangements since its inception:

The following table shows the number of people and companies working in the Information Age Park in Ennis at the end of 2008 and the end of March 2009.