asked the Minister for Industry and Energy if the IDA are proceeding with the previous Government's decision to regionalise the development of small industry by extending the SFADCo approach to all areas of the country and by bringing together the efforts of the county development teams and the IDA under the co-supervision of the regional offices of the IDA and by the decentralisation of administrative and decision-making functions to the regions; and the length of time it will take to bring these decisions into operation.

The Industrial Development Authority are implementing the Government decision of 9 December 1982 to assign a small industry specialist to each of IDA's regional offices, with the exception of the mid west for which SFADCo have responsibility.

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