234 civil servants coordinate a 120-billion-forint grant system.

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This is the payroll of the office that coordinates national RDI strategy and administers the competitive-grant system. The honest classification question is not whether *research* should be state-financed — it is whether the *coordinating administrator* is a rights-protection function, a constitutional precondition, or a protective response to irreversible harm. It is none of these. It is a discretionary policy office. That argues against Keep. But the calculation logic of the framework also cuts against treating the office as pure rent: a body that runs a grant competition, administers international-treaty memberships, and issues the R&D certifications that determine corporate-tax treatment is performing real administrative work with real counterparty reliance, and abolishing the office without first reforming the grant system it administers would strand those functions mid-flight. The defensible position is a nominal freeze: hold payroll flat, let real-terms erosion of roughly 20-25% over a decade at 2.5% inflation discipline the headcount, and revisit the office's scale as part of a broader reform of how — and whether — the state allocates competitive research subsidy. The Hivatal employs 234 authorised positions (27 leadership, 190 non-managerial, 17 vacant as of early 2026).