Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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1225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that the €37.305 million in research funding allocated directly to his Department was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20932/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The figure of €37.3m that the Deputy refers to is the 2021 budgeted expenditure by DFHERIS on research programmes published in the Research and Development Budget 2020-2021 - Government Budget Allocations for Research and Development.

This figure is derived from the 2020 R&D Budget Survey which is an annual survey that measures the amount of government R&D expenditure for the previous year and the allocated expenditure for the current year.

As my Department officially came into existence in mid-2020, the contributions are for 2021 only and the figures provided in the table below are estimated. 

The 2021 Survey which will contain the actual expenditure in this area is expected to be published in December 2022.  

Changes at project level may occur which may result in the planned expenditure not materialising or exceeding the estimated amount, so there can be discrepancies between the estimated and actual expenditure. The 2021 estimated total figure is based on the breakdown of expenditure in the table below.