4215. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount of funding granted to organisations in Cork under his research and development funding streams, in each of the past three years; and the way this compares to the overall funding for the programmes. [58524/26]

From 2023-2026 to date Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland awarded competitive research and innovation grant funding of €1.2 billion across the country. Of that, 17% was allocated to Cork-based institutions and bodies (c. €213 million). This figure includes significant Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland Centre and Rinn awards (for APC, MaREI, Rinn Semiconductors at Tyndall National Institute and Rinn Energy at UCC), as well as awards at MTU.

INSPIRE is a €750 million research infrastructure investment package over the lifetime of the National Development Plan. INSPIRE will support Ireland’s High-Performance Computing capability and, with support from the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment and the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, €100 million in funding has been committed towards the expansion of Tyndall National Institute. At least €500 million will be invested in two funding streams: firstly, for local institutional infrastructure, i.e. research equipment that is used routinely within a higher education institution for both teaching and research purposes and, secondly, for shared advanced infrastructures such as bigger-ticket equipment that is appropriately shared across a number of institutions and, critically, with external users.

Competitive grant awards and core funding to cork based research organisations.

*Figures do not include Irish Research Council awards funded prior to the establishment of the new agency which completed their award of funding between 2023 and the end of 2025.