Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that but if the Minister's Department, and I have said this to him previously, becomes purely an administrative Department for higher and further education, I argue the Department in its concept will have failed. The challenge is with respect to how ambitious the statement of strategy will be, particularly in allowing the technological sector to be able to realise its ambition to meet some of these challenges. I hope the Minister might be able to indicate the scale of the capital investment or research investment we might see to meet some of those challenges.