Professor Frank Monahan:

The figure we have is €12 million. We are hoping we can get about 50% of this funding from inside UCD. Then for the remainder, as we normally must, we will have to seek funding externally. Our funding generally comes from the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. Getting funding for the UCD Lyons Farm, therefore, is challenging in this sense, because we would probably have a better case with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This is because there are so many competing requests for funding for higher education. We do, though, have a plan.