Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a pleasure to meet and hear from Mr. Cosgrave. I am aware that he had a role in the setting up of the undergraduate awards programme. I congratulate him on that. It had not received much publicity for a good while and now many more know about it but I had heard about it.

Mr. Cosgrave stated he knew how to create a job. I was particularly struck by that. He might tell us a little about it. He stated he has 50 employed. He seemed to not make a big deal out of it. If every employer or entrepreneur out there could have 50 employed, it would be a very big deal. He seemed to be alluding to something else, that creating many jobs is an even bigger deal, and we all agree. Besides his one piece of advice that Exchequer funding should be directed towards where there is evidence, which of course is sound, to what else is he alluding there? Is he talking about the IT systems?