asked the Minister for Industry and Energy if he will state for each IDA region and for each of the years 1970 to 1981 inclusive, (a) the gross number of new jobs (b) the net jobs created (c) the total of IDA grants and (e) the estimated total investment from all sources in new job creation.

The reply to the Deputy's question will require the extraction of a large volume of statistics which will take some time to extract and collate.

I will send the Deputy the information as soon as I have it to hand.