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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 580 and 597 together. As Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science I launched the latest round of a call for applications under the Technological University Development Fund. This was noted by Government 30/05/2025. This latest call for applications for up to €65.8 million under the Technological University...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The provision of Higher Education funding on an annual basis, including student supports and the recurrent grant or core funding allocation, is part of overall expenditure management and budgetary policy for Government. I am approaching Budget 2026 by considering measures that can ease the financial burden on students and their families by reducing the cost of education in a way that is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: SOLAS continue to support Mayo Sligo and Leitrim ETB (MSLETB) to progress its Preliminary Business Case proposal for Castlebar under the FET College of the Future Major Projects fund. The proposal is one of twelve projects that are currently being progressed under this fund. MSLETB’s proposal involves providing a state of the art, purpose-built college building on a new site, which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: Adult education and adult education tutors play an important role in empowering individuals, broadening access to learning, and in strengthening communities. After many years of work through the established IR mechanisms by my Department with the Department of Education and Youth, the Department of Public Expenditure, Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), and SIPTU and TUI, the new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The objective of the statutory based student grant scheme is to provide additional assistance where parental income is below a certain threshold or, in the case of independent mature students, where the level of income of the student and his or her spouse warrants additional assistance by way of a grant. For student grant purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The provision of Higher Education funding on an annual basis, including the recurrent grant or core funding allocation, is part of overall expenditure management and budgetary policy for Government. The published Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services 2025 provides for a recurrent grant allocation of €1,666,661,000 in 2025. This is broken down as €1,468,309,000 under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: My Department is committed to driving a skills ecosystem and skills agenda in Ireland which is agile and responsive to priority skills needs, to ensure Ireland has a skilled and productive workforce across businesses of all sizes and to encourage enterprises to avail of opportunities for their employees. I am focused on working with the skills ecosystem, to ensure an adequate pipeline of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The information sought by the Deputy in regard to the number of procurement competitions that did not result in contract award run by the DFHERIS is not routinely collated by my department. However, my department adheres to all OGP guidance which outlines the various stages of the procurement process from specification, through to selection and award stages. Furthermore, my department has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: Please see below a list of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects under my Department’s remit which have been delivered since 2010. Name Contract Value (as at Dec 2024) € Year of Commencement End Date Subject to cost overruns / renegotiations / early terminations Grangegorman Quads ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: By way of background for the Deputy, through Specialist Training Provision (STP), Education and Training Boards (ETBs) contract providers to offer training to learners who require more intensive support than is available in mainstream FET settings. In 2024, circa €41 million was allocated to support 2,763 learners. Of this, €17 million provided training allowances to learners. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: My Department has not procured any services from this company. The information in respect of aegis bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question, is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the attached document, should the Deputy wish as to contact the aegis bodies directly with their query. Please note that City of Dublin Education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The Department does not compile programme-level data for the period 2014–2024; however, relevant information is available in the SOLAS Annual Reports and individual Education and Training Board (ETB) Financial Statements for those years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The Department does not compile programme-level data for the period 2014–2024; however, relevant information by individual ETB is available in the SOLAS Annual Reports and Financial Statements for those years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The Department does not compile programme-level data for the period 2014–2024; however, relevant information by individual ETB is available in the SOLAS Annual Reports and Financial Statements for those years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The Department does not compile programme-level data for the period 2014–2024; however, relevant information is available in the SOLAS Annual Reports and individual Education and Training Board (ETB) Financial Statements for those years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 596 and 579 together. The Programmes for Access To Higher Education (PATHs) are the main funding streams to supports the implementation of the National Access Plan (NAP). The PATH is a dedicated fund, broken into five strands, committed to increasing participation by under-represented groups in higher education The objectives of PATH 1 are to:increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (15 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: My Department continues to support and demonstrate commitment to the programme. A significant level of State resources is held in a fund for the delivery of the scholarships under the legislative framework in place and this funding has been supplemented over recent years by a significant annual subvention from my Department. The US - Ireland Alliance which is responsible for the operation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (15 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: The Higher Education Access Route (HEAR) Scheme is managed and operated by the Irish Universities Association (IUA) on behalf of the higher education institutions who are autonomous bodies. Admissions under the scheme are regulated by the higher education institutions themselves. Each institution determines its own admissions policy in relation to the schemes, the number of places they...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (15 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department does not own any CCTV cameras. Any of my officials with access to CCTV cameras, which are owned and managed by the OPW, but based in my Department’s office locations, only disseminate recorded footage in strict accordance with GDPR guidelines. The information in respect of aegis bodies, within the scope of the Deputy’s question,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Jul 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy will be aware the National College of Ireland (NCI) is a private higher education institution. Private higher education institutions, including NCI may be eligible to receive funding from the State for limited courses that are approved for funding under specific initiatives. These include the Free Fees Initiative, Apprenticeships and Springboard+. Under the respective...