Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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We will get through them now. The problem is, you have to be on board with the Athena Swan charter in Ireland if you want to get funding. That means it is a gateway and a control. If it is advancing politically contested principles, that is a problem for academic freedom. The questions to which I would be grateful for an answer, having regard to the briefing the Minister provided - and he can interrupt me if he wants to just give me answers or he can give them sequentially or whenever he wants - how much HEA funding was used to support the work funding the Athena Swan charter in the last financial year? Can the Department supply details on the cost to the public Exchequer of this work? If the-----