David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I thank Ms Costello.

Science Foundation Ireland has a very interesting sentence in its presentation, that "Competencies such as stakeholder engagement, creative problem-solving, leadership, change management and collaboration are all vital aspects of a talented and agile workforce." It is interesting that Science Foundation Ireland focuses on those particular softer skills rather than the technical capabilities that it mentioned earlier. Professor Nolan might expand on that thinking for a moment because it is something many people miss in the debate about skills, employment, etc. It strikes me as being particularly focused in many ways the way Science Foundation Ireland has it here.