John Bruton (Meath, Fine Gael)
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Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of their outlay devoted to research and development by firms here by comparison with the corresponding OECD percentage as a whole and each OECD country. [18202/04]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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In 2001, the latest year for which data is available, business expenditure on research and development in Ireland reached €917 million. This represented 0.95% of GNP or 0.8% of GDP, compared to an OECD average of 1.56%. The following table shows Ireland's ranking in terms of business expenditure on research and development as a percentage of GNP and GDP among 26 OECD countries. It shows that Ireland stands 15th of the 26 countries in question.