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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Does Professor Kelly-Holmes want to say a quick word?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: We will have an opportunity at the end to summarise. If there are any other points Deputy O'Callaghan would like to make, he can do so at that stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: It is great to hear there are researchers who return to the system. I thank Professor Livesey and the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I thank Senator Higgins. I will ask my questions now and if the Senator wishes to contribute at the end, that will be no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Each of the groups will have a chance to summarise. I welcome the witnesses again This is an exciting time, as I mentioned in the earlier session. There is a wealth of opportunity for research and innovation Ireland and this country is definitely well placed to run with that. At the end of the session, I will ask the witnesses what their vision of success is for research and innovation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: For negotiating contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Is two weeks standard to negotiate a contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Is that the average?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Is that the average throughout the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I want to bring it back to the capacity around innovation. This funding is for research and innovation Ireland. We also have Enterprise Ireland which is focusing on the enterprise element. As the vice-president of research and innovation, I am asking Professor Livesey how we manage that in respect of the teams he works with to ensure there is a faster response around commercialisation....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: In Professor Livesey's experience, is the principal investigator, PI, the innovator? Is it the PI that will be the chief executive on a campus spin-out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Exactly. I suppose that is very much a strength, but then in Professor Livesey's experience, where are those innovators? Where are the innovators who will take the idea, be it across whatever sphere of knowledge we are looking at, so that is not going to sit on a shelf somewhere in an office or library, where it looks lovely and all bound, but will actually have an impact on people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: I am interested in this so I will ask for an example. Who are those teams? Do they exist already? We have technology transfer teams and we have commercialisation officers in our research offices. Who are the teams the professor is speaking of? Who identifies the people who are the entrepreneurs or the innovators? The science is there. Whatever the results are from research, and there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: How do the universities become sustainable, then? How do universities -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Universities do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Do universities not need to consider how to garner the knowledge that is being created through publicly-funded research?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: My question is this and then I will pass on to Senator O'Reilly: unless research gets out into the market for people to be able to avail of it or benefit from it in whatever sphere, how will it have impact? That is in a number of years rather than in ten or 20 years' time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: Venture capital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: And clinical trials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Aisling Dolan: We will come back to that in a few minutes. Professor Taylor wanted to come in.