Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Like Deputy Neville, I thank the Minister of State for the presentation on the European Space Agency a week ago. It was excellent and we all learned a great deal from it.

We all learned a great deal and we need to get the message out that it is a good project that we are involved in and that it should continue.

I have two queries. There was an allocation of €319 million for the science and technology development programme in 2017 but, in 2017, it will be €303 million, a reduction of €15.496 million. Second, in 2016, there was an allocation of €30.377 million to the programme for research in third level institutions while, in 2017, it will be €14.4 million. Was the money transferred elsewhere?