Taoiseach criticised for U-turn on government’s R&D spending pledge
Just two years ago, the government set a target of increasing public and private R&D spending to 2.5 per cent of national income by 2020
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has come under fire for abandoning a government promise to almost double spending on research and development.
Just two years ago, the government set a target of increasing public and private R&D spending to 2.5 per cent of national income by 2020.
However, Varadkar has said that in real terms this would require increasing spending from the current level of €3.25 billion to €5 billion in the next two years. ...
