Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 January 2019
122. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the level of public research and development intensity as measured as a percentage of GDP in each of the years 2005 to 2018; and the budgeted figure for 2019, in tabular form. [2292/19]
View answerThe information is contained in the table.
|
Year |
GBARD as percentage of GDP |
|
2005 |
0.42% |
|
2006 |
0.41% |
|
2007 |
0.45% |
|
2008 |
0.50% |
|
2009 |
0.52% |
|
2010 |
0.49% |
|
2011 |
0.45% |
|
2012 |
0.43% |
|
2013 |
0.40% |
|
2014 |
0.37% |
|
2015 |
0.28% |
|
2016 |
0.26% |
|
2017 |
0.25% |
|
2018 estimate |
0.24% |
The Table shows Government Budget Allocations on R&D (GBARD) as a percentage of GDP for the years 2005 to 2018. Note data for 2019 is not available yet. For more information please see the R&D Budget 2017-2018 at the following link:
https://dbei.gov.ie/en/Publications/The-R-D-Budget-2017-2018.html.
