Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is excellent. Industry can forge a path but we forge paths, and drive change, in research. Research leads the way where industry sometimes sees what it is doing and thinks it might just take that wonderful pocket of researchers, together with that excellent principal investigator, PI, who did that research and bring them over to it. That is really important. On diversity, Galway is such a cosmopolitan city with nearly one in five and that is down to our university, the healthcare and the hospital that is there. There are many international researchers attending university there because of the research professorship programmes that are run there. It is crucial in bringing teams to Ireland.