Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Departmental EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Secretary General.

2:15 pm

Mr. Pat Kelly:

We can certainly have figures from Enterprise Ireland, which manages Ireland's participation in the framework programme and we can also get details on the participation of the university sector, the health and education sector, SMEs, large multinationals and so on. That information is available. Based on previous information we got from Enterprise Ireland, I can inform members that Ireland is one of the leading countries, if not the foremost, in terms of SME participation in framework programmes. I will be happy to get the details on this and to provide it to members.