Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

On big data, marine energy, drug delivery, food for health and perinatal research, which is based out of UCC and the Cork University Maternity Hospital. The overarching philosophy is to ramp up into world class research centres and to increase industry engagement but this does not preclude us from continuing our funding of regional technology centres, which are not necessarily mapped onto the 14 research prioritisation areas. Industry engages with the technology centres through the institutes of technology after identifying industry challenges. We should have distributed a note on the distribution of the centres as well as the activities ongoing in same. I can discuss this matter now, if the Deputy wishes.