§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what has been the cost of running the Fair Employment Agency since it was set up.
§ Mr. Adam ButlerThe total cost of financing the Fair Employment Agency since it was established in September 1976 to 31 March 1982 is £771,013.
§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many individual cases have been referred to the Fair Employment Agency in each of the years since it was set up; how many of these have been investigated; in how many cases evidence of unlawful discrimination has been found; what action has been taken when evidence of discrimination has come to light; and how many individual cases of discrimination have been found against (a) Catholics and (b) Protestants.
§ Mr. Adam ButlerSince its inception on 1 September 1976, the Fair Employment Agency has investigated all individual cases which were registered personally as official complaints of discrimination. Up to 31 January 1983 these numbered 285. The following table sets out by year, the number of cases investigated and the number of findings of unlawful discrimination.
§ Mr. Adam ButlerPlanning estimates indicate that the capital cost, at October 1981 prices, of all aspects of the proposal to make natural gas from the Kinsale field available within Northern Ireland, would amount to £147 million. This total is made up as follows:
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£million Main pipeline: border to transmission take-off point 8 Transmission line to Belfast 8 Transmission lines to elsewhere within Northern Ireland 25 Capital contribution to main pipeline (at current prices) Dublin to border (associated with delivery costs) 5 Refurbishing the existing network of distribution pipes 12 Laying pipelines and services to new consumers 43 Converting consumers' appliances 21
£million Storage and compression facilities 25 Total 147