John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Conscious of Innovation 2020, most of the funding goes to SFI.

I have asked Science Foundation Ireland to recommend how science, technology and innovation could best serve the Irish economy in employment, development, reconfiguration of the sciences itself and in dealing with Europe and worldwide issues. They will revert to me in the next couple of weeks. Let me repeat that members of the committee are welcome to meet the witnesses from Science Foundation Ireland and put the relevant questions to them.

Let me emphasise that most of the funding goes to Science Foundation Ireland, which then allocates the funding. If members feel that the funding should be distributed in different ways, they should raise it with them.