Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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239. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of grant aid awarded by the IDA in each of the years 2013 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017. [53096/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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240. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of grant aid awarded to companies by the IDA in 2016 and to date 2017, by county, in tabular form. [53097/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 239 and 240 together.

The table provides a breakdown of grants paid by IDA Ireland to its client companies between 2013 and 2016. The figure provided for Dublin includes payments to the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training. Details of grants paid in 2017 will be available early next year.

It is important to note that grants paid in a particular year are not necessarily linked to either the investments won or the jobs created in that 12-month period. Grants are generally drawn down over the lifetime of a project which is normally over a period of three to five years. Some investments which result in job creation may not be grant aided and some well-established firms may no longer be receiving grant payments.