Lynn Ruane (Independent)
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I will tag on to that piece there. Is it not true to say that whatever the new arrangements will be with the UK and the European Union, the UK will no longer be able to lead out on research so they might have to lean on Ireland? We have a close relationship and both are English speaking countries. Will there be an arrangement whereby Ireland collaborates with England on its current and future research but it will actually be Ireland that leads the research projects? That means there would be an impact on rankings because the citations would be shared between the UK and Ireland. Is that not something that could possibly happen?