Deirdre Clune (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State has covered many of the areas that I am interested in and it was good to hear his response. Will he comment on the question of the unitary patent system? There is EU funding and State funding for businesses. I remember a previous review of the money spent on research in which there was always a suggestion that more could be done to leverage funding other than State funding. Is there too high a dependence on State funding rather than setting about leveraging private or EU funding? Will the Minister comment on that?