Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Competitiveness and Economic Growth: National Competitiveness Council

4:00 pm

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Finally, Professor Clinch rightly refers and the council's reports refer repeatedly to the importance of innovation and the €4 billion spend that we might have on innovation. Given the role of third and fourth level education in the area of innovation and the connections that have been made by all of our third level institutions, universities and institutes of technology with local economies and enterprise, is Professor Clinch unhappy with the level of resources provided by the State for third and fourth level?

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