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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: There is no doubt about that whatsoever. However, I think it is important. I have made the point and I will move on to the next one.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: It is important though that we do not allow PRTLI, if there is a sixth round, to become a different type of fund. There is a particular purpose to that fund and a very specific need for it. That is that subhead and there are other related subheads. I do not think it is like for like. Looking at the table of figures, I note there is a set of metrics entitled "context and impact...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: It is page 32.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: Yes, it is. I am looking at the context and impact indicators. There are five of them there and the fifth one has a to e in respect of global rankings of performance.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: I am looking at this table here of "context and impact indicators".
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: Yes. I think it is a useful table to have. I was concerned when I read it. I hope I am reading it incorrectly and the Minister of State can clarify if I am. However, if I am reading it right, there is cause for concern. If we take the five global rankings which are under section 5, from a to e, we have rankings in a number of areas from 2015, 2016 and 2017. If I am reading the table...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: In the next one we have gone from ninth to 12th to 21st. It is quite a drop. I will not labour the point but of the five key metrics that the Department has held out as being performance indicators, we have gone backwards in three, been static in one and moved forward with only one. That is a serious concern, to be frank. We can look at the top level figure. The Minister of State...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: I do not doubt for a minute the commitment of the team to meeting the targets.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: I am sure the Minister of State wants to get there as well. It is frustrating and all figures are relative but we have declined in three of the five targets and stayed still in the others. The Minister of State has accepted we are not anywhere near the 2.5% of GNP target that the Government set as a target. Effectively, he is echoing what the Taoiseach said when I asked him about this late...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: We were doing it 15 years ago. That was when Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, programme for research in third-level institutions, PRTLI, and Irish Research Council, IRC, were started and when we started to get it right for the first time. We started to build a base. We did it very successfully for about ten or 12 years and that is the base that is now being eroded. That is the risk, when...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: It is at risk of being eroded.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: I have another, different type of question for the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, on subhead B6, international organisations. I read through the briefing notes, and I am delighted that LOFAR is getting support to turn on the telescope. It is a great example of best in class Irish scientific research, and the team at LOFAR have been really successful. I appreciate the Government and...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: It is certainly money well spent. I understand that CERN results in similar yields. When a country joins CERN as a member or on an associate membership basis money is returned by way of contracts. Once it joins a country can bid for contracts and tenders, as well as benefiting from the educational and research developments outside of the return on investment. I wanted to mention that...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: I have a question.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: It is on the same topic. I wholeheartedly agree with everything Deputy Donnelly said and I realise the Minister of State is sympathetic to the case. If we do not have basic research we will not have applied research-----
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: -----because the pipeline will be cut off. It is also important to note the benefits of accidental discovery. I mentioned CERN earlier. The worldwide web was discovered at CERN. A group of particle physicists were clashing protons off each other underground and they discovered the web as a by-product. The benefits hardly need to be stated. I have a Bill before the Dáil at present...
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: Has the Minister had a chance to look at that Bill?
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: People in the sector are saying it.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (27 Mar 2018) James Lawless: That is fine.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Knowledge Development Box (27 Mar 2018)
James Lawless: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the apparent contradiction in the approach to research collaborations between the IDA and the Revenue Commissioners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5958/18]