Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The one financial question that you asked me, Chairman, concerned the training and research budget. This looks to be way under-spent. The research programmes and the call for new expenditure always happen in the autumn, so there will be a dramatic increase in expenditure between now and the end of the year. Some of the schemes and funded research programmes are very much autumn-focused.