Mr. Donal Keane:

I am not the scientist in Science Foundation Ireland, SFI. It is difficult. Going back to what I said earlier, when excellent science is funded the excellent science translates into the individuals who deliver the excellent science. By and large, they tend to be located within the universities, although not exclusively. We are precluded from funding companies but we have companies that partner with SFI awards. For instance, there are Intel scientists embedded in the CRANN CSET in Trinity College. They are people who are not of the universities but are within a corporate entity. There is a linkage to the universities structure. It is difficult because it comes down to the skills set. It is not a question of being profit or not for profit. Profit implies a company, and legally we do not fund them by way of remit. Regarding not for profit organisations, we have done work with charities, sometimes off their own bat where they commissioned research and sometimes in collaboration with another partner, but it is a difficult one.