Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of loans that have been approved for the purchase of land; the county in which the land is to be purchased under the low cost loan scheme from the European Investment Bank and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund that is being managed by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5783/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The subject to which the Deputy refers is an operational matter outside the remit of my Department.  I understand that the company in question, in partnership with the EIB (European Investment Bank) and ISIF (the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund), is heading up a forestry fund in Ireland and that a private forestry group is the national manager on behalf of the company, with responsibility for assessment, acquisition and management of the relevant properties.   My Department has no information in this regard.