Small industry units and IDA property
The Minister referred the Deputy to a table on vacant small industry units and said IDA-owned factories covered 10.25 million square feet, with a replacement value of about £250 million.
asked the Minister for Industry, Trade, Commerce and Tourism the number of vacant small industrial units which are available in each town or city throughout the country; the number of small industrial units in any town or city throughout the country which are occupied at present; the number of these vacant units on which there are active negotiations with industrialists for them; and the total area and value of all IDA property in the country at present.
Comment on this
Details of the number, location and status of vacant small industry units, up to and including 10,000 sq. ft. are set out in a tabular statement which I propose to have circulated in the Official Report.
I am informed that the total area of factories in IDA ownership is 10.25 million sq. ft. which includes factories leased to promoters and being sold to promoters approved by the IDA for grant assistance. These factories have a present day replacement value of approximately £250 million. The compilation of the detailed information requested by the Deputy in regard to occupied advance factories would be time consuming, wasteful of resources and would not justify the effort involved.
Following is the statement:
Vacant Small Industry Units