Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The scientists say that what is happening is being hidden by that data. They say that the total amount of money being spent is not falling but that the work they have to do has changed. They have raised this issue before and the data the Minister of State has just given is exactly the data they have repeated back to them year after year. They are saying that the money for the labs has not decreased but what they are being asked to do for that money has fundamentally changed.