Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when applications will be accepted for Innovate for Ireland, a new partnership between industry and the Government to recruit and retain research talent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62845/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Innovate for Ireland (I4I) is an innovative programme aimed at attracting and retaining research talent in Ireland. The purpose of the programme is to attract high achieving world class talent who might not have considered undertaking a PhD programme or, if they had, would not have considered Ireland as a location.

The support package being developed for I4I is designed with comparable international programmes in mind, and will apply only to students qualifying for the programme, i.e., an initial tranche of 400 students.

Details of the scheme are still under development and the final shape of the scheme will be framed once those deliberations are complete.