Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I thank Ms Riordan for coming in today, as well as Mr. Donal Keane and Mr. Brian Dalton. I assume that on Ms Riordan's nomination being successful she will be chairperson of Science Foundation Ireland and that we will meet her in the future to hear about progress to date.

Through the projects with which Ms Riordan has been involved, directly and indirectly, including the FIT initiative with the Ballymun Job Centre, Peter Davitt and Tramlines, Microsoft and so on, the committee knows the fantastic quality of the work that she will bring to SFI. We will expect, and know that we will see, good things from SFI because it will be in safe hands if Ms Riordan's nomination is successful. I thank her for coming here today.