Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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857. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grants, if any, that were paid to a company (details supplied); if any grants have been repaid; the grants that remain unpaid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23743/16]

Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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858. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of the liquidation process at a company (details supplied) and the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23744/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 857 and 858 together.

No grant funding has been paid by IDA Ireland to this company. However in the period between 1971 and 2010 - when this company was in different ownership and trading under a different name – grant assistance of €5.986m was provided by the State in support of it. These grants were variously in respect of specific Capital, Research and Employment initiatives and helped to secure and develop the operation in Clonmel over many years. There is no grant liability due to the State at this stage.

Regarding the recent High Court appointment of a liquidator, this Department has no involvement or legal standing in this liquidation and is not a party to that process. Accordingly I am not in a position to comment or give any details on the costs of the liquidation.