Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is. The reason Galway developed as a med-tech sector of the world is because of that connection between our education system and our enterprise system. I saw that collaboration in my time as Minister of State with responsibility for research. We have done a lot in Galway, both in the university and in GMIT, around that connection and collaboration across all the stakeholders. It has been driven by top-class people in the education system working with enterprise and constantly expanding those companies with new products. Also, the link with the university hospital is key to the development of top-class health services, as well developing services and products that can be used all over the world too. We need to build on that too and we recognise it in the plan as well.