Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the companies recently grant aided by her Department in the meat processing sector; the number of work permits for non-EU nationals that each of these companies holds; the number of work permits issued to each of these companies for non-EU workers for each year since 2000 to date in 2009; the criteria which these companies will have to meet to draw down their grant aid as they relate to numbers of people employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22954/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Payments of grant aid are not made by my Department. Payments are made by the Industrial Development agencies under the aegis of my Department and are a day to day operational matter for the agencies. I do not have any role in the day to day operational matters of these agencies.