Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Will the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock, tell the committee exactly where we are at with Horizon 2020 which is crucial to many of these projections? Is it completely tied up with getting agreement on the budget at Parliament level? With regard to the capital programme, namely, the programme for research in third level institutions, PRTLI, the outturn for 2012 was €5 million higher than the Estimate and the Estimate for 2013 is €10 million lower than the 2012 outturn. We will probably discuss this again when discussing Science Foundation Ireland. What will this mean practically?