Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It was in Cork North-Central. My point is about research and development. It is through connectivity between business and foreign direct investment, FDI, that we can have innovative solutions to the challenges we face, for example, in food issues, which we found with NutRI last Friday in Cork Institute of Technology. It is important in the context of this Finance Bill, given that we have an economy with full employment, we are the fourth highest placed country in the world in the UN index, and in the context of where we are going, that it is a case of steady as we go.

It is important to recognise the point Senator McDowell made regarding RTÉ. I made the point in the House last Thursday, in the context of councillors' pay and conditions, that it is a very important question that we cannot just gloss over-----