Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

3:10 pm

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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I have a final question on Horizon 2020. The high level group reviews are every year or two years. A large amount of funding has been targeted, and that is worthwhile, but do we measure the outcomes in terms of what is commercialised and what is internationalised? I refer to the numbers at the end of that. What other indicators do we examine? Targeting the money is one aspect, and I believe Mr. Kelly's organisation will be successful in getting that, but does he have hope in terms of the number of jobs that will come out of that?