27 Mr. Leonard asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the number of jobs provided in each Border county over the past two years as a result of Forbairt and IFI North American involvement, the partnership programme, the Forbairt small business administration partnership programme, the American management business programme, AMBIT, and the Washington Conference on Trade and Investment in Ireland. [5937/97]

I am sure the Deputy will appreciate that it is not possible to pin down specific job numbers to these programmes, given the nature of them. However, the following table shows gross gains, job losses and the net change in employment for Forbairt client companies in the Border region for the past two years.