Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are two parts to the process. One is through the Patents Office and the other is through the Revenue Commissioners. The Revenue Commissioners never publish details like this. The controller is capturing the information around research and development.The amendment I am speaking to, in the name of Senator Mac Lochlainn, is about the place of production. I do not know whether the Senator can accept my point that this is about research and development. If all the research and development takes place in Donegal and it really good and innovative in its model, so be it. It is about research and development, not about the production. That is what the controller is looking at. We have confidence in the controller, in what he has done in the past and in what he will do in the future. That is my point.