Dee Ryan (Fianna Fail)

I thank the witnesses for everything they have given us so far today. It has been very interesting and I am learning a large amount. I want to bring them back a little bit to an earlier discussion for my question. Undoubtedly the work they are doing and the research they are funding are contributing to creating the research ecosystem here and the overall ecosystem here for the development of a new technology sector for us in Ireland. We should be ambitious in aiming to do this. We should not only support other people to invest here and to bring what they have developed elsewhere here and sell from here but we should be innovators and leaders in this field ourselves. Dr. Seoighe mentioned that some of the research being funded is on chips and improving their energy-efficiency. Sticking with this theme of the hardware, will he explain a little about what impact all of this technological innovation is having and the consequent impacts for the technology needed to deliver it? Where is this research happening? Are we doing much of the research on the hardware changes and developments? Consequently, does he see potential for us to become leaders in the development and manufacturing of the new hardware that will be required to support AI?