Dr. Ciar?n Seoighe:

As for where to next for the Creating our Future campaign, we are getting a good bit of interest from other jurisdictions that would like to do something similar. In the same way we learned from colleagues in the Netherlands and Belgium, it is now our turn to give back. Colleagues from the US, the UK and Germany want to take similar steps in their jurisdictions to have the same engagement with their public, and we are engaging and supporting them in doing that. That is internationally sharing the learnings.

Internally and in Ireland, we need to continue to promote the campaign through conversations such as this and with researchers. That is core to where we take Creating our Future next, getting the campaign findings and the recommendations out there and getting researchers, in particular, to look at the book of inspiration. As we are seeing during this meeting, this is about inspiring researchers and deepening the conversation between researchers and the community. As Deputy Ó Murchú learned, one can spend hours engaging with the researchers who really know this stuff, learning from them and taking those questions to the next level of depth, and that is something we would like to do more of. The public in Ireland has such an interest in research, and now that we have created the campaign and the interest, it is our job to make those connections and bring together that engaged research, the researchers and the policymakers in order that they can get the true benefit of the campaign.