Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Select Committee on Education and Skills

Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 26 - Education (Revised)
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised)

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely, there is. As I alluded to in my comments to Deputy Alan Farrell, the Department will announce a capital investment call tomorrow. That will be available to the technological sector for any projects or proposals it may have for us. The Chairman will be aware that the different technological university projects are at different points in their journeys or transitions and that we have a fund of €90 million, the technological university transformation fund, that will run until 2023. We allocated a further €40 million to the technological university education reforms under the national recovery and resilience plan and €18 million for technology-oriented research under the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF, was also progressed. Funding is not an issue.

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