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.

2:45 pm

Mr. John Murphy:

I am sure the Deputy will do so. Deputy Collins asked about the composition of 1.8% of GDP. Gross expenditure and research and development is known as the GERD measure. There are several different measures. The figure for 2010 was €2.8 billion which is 1.8% of GDP, of which business contributed €1.9 billion, the government sector directly contributed €90 million, the higher education sector which is largely public funding was €800 million and a small amount for the private non-profit sector. These figures are adjusted every year. It gets rather complicated after a while. We will endeavour to find more up-to-date figures for 2011.