Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Does Ms Fitzgerald think there is a role for the clusters in terms of increasing the research, development and innovation capacity? Is that something they can do? It may be an individual issue. There is an issue in terms of investment in research, development and innovation. Part of that is nervousness on behalf of SMEs and micro businesses. Some of that could be a cultural thing as well; we do not know. In terms of clustering, however, does Ms Fitzgerald get the sense from the clusters that when research, development and innovation come together, they will be less hesitant to make that investment?