asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce the number of industrial firms grant-aided and the amount of grant paid in County Roscommon each year for the last five years; and the number of jobs approved for each project.

(Limerick East): The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the number of industrial firms grant-aided and the amount of grant paid in County Roscommon is contained in the annual reports of the IDA which are available in the Dáil Library. The latest such report relates to the year 1985. Information in respect of 1986 is not yet available. The information requested by the Deputy in relation to job numbers is in the form of a list which I propose to circulate in the Official Report.

Project Approvals in County Roscommon 1981

Project Approvals in County Roscommon 1982

Project Approvals in County Roscommon 1983

Project Approvals in County Roscommon 1984

Project Approvals in County Roscommon 1985

With regard to announcements made by the Minister during 1986 regarding industrial projects, namely, Manton and Company and a number of other projects announced by the Minister recently, will he inform the House as to the time scale for providing those jobs?

(Limerick East): It is a policy that any announcement about job projections is confined to two years ahead. We no longer make projections for four or five years ahead as was the practice heretofore.

Is there any follow-up by the IDA to establish if the number of jobs which are grant-aided and announced when a project gets approval are provided? If not, what steps, if any, are taken by the IDA to recover grants paid for jobs which have not been filled?

(Limerick East): The IDA monitor the progress of companies on an ongoing basis. Grants are not paid at the start of a project; they are paid as the jobs are created over a period of time. It is also Government policy now that contracts between participating companies and the IDA would have a clause inserted that if the job targets are not achieved grants will be repaid to the IDA.