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Annual Report and Accounts
2005

Financial Statements - Notes to the Financial Statements

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For the Year Ended 31 December 2005

1 Exchequer Funding

Oireachtas Grants

  1. Under Section 35 of the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act, 2003, the aggregate amount of grants made by the Minister to Forfás and its Agencies to enable them to discharge their Capital obligations and liabilities shall not exceed €3.4 billion. At 31 December 2005 the aggregate amount made available to the three Agencies was €2.467 billion (2004- €2.209billion) of which Enterprise Ireland and the former Forbairt received €709.940m (2004- €661.151m).
  2. Under Section 14(3) of the Industrial Development Act 1986, the aggregate amount of grants made by the Minister to Forfás and its Agencies to enable them to meet their obligations and liabilities in respect of principal and interest on foot of Loan Guarantees under that Act and under Section 37 of the Industrial Development Act 1969 , Sections 2 and 3 of the Industrial Development Act 1977, shall not exceed €159m . At 31 December 2005 the aggregate amount so provided was €13.547m (2004- €13.547m), all of which related to Enterprise Ireland clients.

The Oireachtas Grants as shown in the financial statements consist of:

  2005
€'000
2004
€'000
Grant for Capital Grants, Loan Guarantees, etc 45,789 47,588
Grant for Promotion and Administration Expenditure 89,858 88,386
Grant for Capital Equipment 2,094 3,216
National Training Fund 2,500 2,500
Information Society Fund 35 -
Science & Technology Development Programme 91,945
74,959
  232,221
216,649
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