Dr. Dermot Coates:

I can certainly tell the Deputy that quite a bit of work has been undertaken by the economics team in my general area on analysis. This is to identify what this might mean for us in practice. It is clear, when you look at the economic literature around innovation and highly productive economies, that they tend to be correlated with high levels of patent registration and that concept of economic complexity, which the Deputy would be aware of. On the more general point of the referendum and the progression of that legislation, I do not have an update at the moment but that is certainly something we can supply through the clerk after this meeting.