Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I am talking about development. Where they are physically made is not that important. Our universities are working in tandem and in partnership with these multinationals and yet we do not seem to get any benefit. We are still building the labs and staffing them, and yet we are not getting any benefit back. From the witness's reaction I can see that that is not happening, but it strikes me as a bit of a wasted opportunity if the Department of Education and Skills is putting large amounts of money into the universities to ensure that they have scientific labs and we are not extracting any benefit from that.