Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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369. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding which was provided for under the capital plan for regional building programme office space; the amount that has been spent to date; the amount planned to be spent; the buildings that have received funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18754/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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In February 2015, the Government launched a five year strategy aimed at accelerating the jobs recovery in every part of the country. This included the delivery of a €150 million IDA Ireland led regional property programme. Its objective is to help attract foreign direct investment into different parts of Ireland by improving the availability of marketable serviced land as well as office and industrial/manufacturing buildings. In practical terms, the programme entails the upgrading of business and technology parks, investments in strategic utility-intensive sites and the construction of new advance technology buildings. To date, IDA Ireland has received €61 million in exchequer funding in support of the programme.

Construction is nearing completion of the first three advance facilities - located in Castlebar, Sligo and Tralee - that were planned under the programme. The total capital budget for the delivery of all nine planned facilities is approximately €45 million.

The tables below set out the current status of the six remaining buildings under the programme. These are at various stages in terms of concept and design and therefore individual costs have not yet been finalised.

Advance Technology Buildings (ATB’s)

Advance Office Buildings (AOB’s)