asked the Minister for Transport and Power the amount of State capital up to the present involved in (a) Shannon Airport and (b) the Shannon Airport Industrial Estate.

The total amount of State capital expended on Shannon Airport up to the 31st December, 1961, was £4.8m. As at the same date, State capital amounting to about £2.1m. had been expended on the Shannon Free Airport Industrial Estate, made up as follows:—

What was the highest employment given in the Shannon Free Airport Industrial Estate at the date to which those figures refer?

I am afraid I have not got those figures.