Mr. Jim Miley:

That was a real case of addressing the needs of people, in this case people with sight loss, working with companies in the medtech cluster in Galway in developing this world-class research and in producing solutions that benefit people's eyes in a very practical way. That is just one little vignette of the value of research. One of the challenges in our system and what we have been trying to do with that series and elsewhere is to show the real practical value of what happens. People sometimes think of people locked behind doors wearing lab coats and wonder what difference it makes to their lives.

Another example would be in Limerick. We now have very strong collaboration from the University of Limerick, which has started an immersive software programme, working directly with some of the leading ICT companies in the world. That is a teaching element but also has a research element. The connections are very much there. We probably all need to tell the story of it better.