Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That was the basic scientific research part. I made an observation on our academic hiring framework. Basically, we stopped ourselves being able to hire from the private sector and foreigners into academia. The other question relevant to the Vote was whether the Minister of State would recommend any changes to it based on what the Dáil saw in the supplementary Estimate for the Department for his Vote block of €333 million in December-January.