Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

The background to this question is the growing unrest in the scientific research community about the serious imbalances at policy level between funding for oriented basic research, that being, applied research, and pure basic research, which can have a greater social and economic impact in the long run. What is the breakdown between the two in terms of the figures for funding that were provided to me last month?

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