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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: A key objective of the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025 is to ensure the apprenticeship system will increase its contribution to meeting Ireland’s skills and human capital requirements by delivering a target of 10,000 apprenticeship registrations per annum by 2025. There are currently 65 apprenticeship programmes, 25 craft programmes and 40 programmes introduced since 2016....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Science Foundation Ireland (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: Precision ALS, is an ambitious academic, clinical and industry research programme that will provide new insights in our understanding of Motor Neuron Disease (MND), also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Precision ALS, which is led by two SFI Research Centres – ADAPT and FutureNeuro – involves world class Irish-based researchers in clinical science, data science...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: The new International Education, Research and Innovation Strategy will be a high-level document setting ambitious yet achievable strategic goals and objectives to 2025 and will play a key role in the promotion of Ireland globally as a centre of excellence in education, research and innovation. My Department launched a public consultation process earlier this year to canvas the views of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: My Department is committed to taking a proactive approach to tackling all forms of racial and ethnic discrimination in higher education. Diversity is a key strength of Irish higher education. In recent decades our universities, institutes of technology, and colleges have been transformed, from predominantly national institutions catering primarily for school-leavers, to internationally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: Under the terms of the student grant scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. With regard to the residency criterion, in order to be eligible for a grant, a "student", as defined in Section 14 of the Student Support Act 2011, must demonstrate that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: My Department has not engaged the services of the two named organisations at any point, from my Department's inception in June 2020 to date. 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 to contact them directly with this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 703 and 706 together. Apprentices are primarily employees and all of the 65 apprenticeships are subject to a contract of employment. For the majority of apprenticeships, the rate of pay is agreed between the apprentice and the employer. For the 25 craft apprenticeship programmes, the rates of pay applying under the employment contract are either agreed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: My Department allocates specific funding for research through Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council and the Higher Education Authority. In 2021, SFI and the IRC spent €257 million on targeted research funding. Higher Education Institutions also fund research from their block grants from the HEA, in addition to other calls such as the North-South Research Programme....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: A stipend is a well-established feature of funded postgraduate awards globally, providing an income to the awardee in recognition of the need to devote themselves on a full-time basis to their research. In relation to PhD students, a number would be in receipt of grants from research funders, a number would be receiving institutional or other scholarships, while others would be self-funded....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: Following a call for proposals under the FET College of the Future Major Projects Fund, I understand that a Strategic Assessment Report in relation to the Cavan Institute proposal has now been submitted by Cavan Monaghan ETB to SOLAS. The Deputy will be aware that it was agreed that the Cavan Institute project, previously part of the Department of Education school building programme, would be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: The principal support provided by my Department in financial terms is the Student Grant Scheme. Under the terms of the Scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. The scheme is demand led and as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: The principal support provided by my Department in financial terms is the Student Grant Scheme. Under the terms of the Scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. The scheme is demand led and as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: The principal support provided by my Department in financial terms is the Student Grant Scheme. Under the terms of the Scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. The scheme is demand led and as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: SUSI assesses grants under Student Grant Legislation set out by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. To be eligible for a grant, every applicant must fulfil the specific eligibility conditions of the Student Grant Scheme 2021 contained in articles 14 to 18 and must have a reckonable income within the limits and other requirements set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: SUSI assesses grants under Student Grant Legislation set out by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. To be eligible for a grant, every applicant must fulfil the specific eligibility conditions of the Student Grant Scheme 2021 contained in articles 14 to 18 and must have a reckonable income within the limits and other requirements set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: SUSI assesses grants under Student Grant Legislation set out by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. To be eligible for a grant, every applicant must fulfil the specific eligibility conditions of the Student Grant Scheme 2021 contained in articles 14 to 18 and must have a reckonable income within the limits and other requirements set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: Significant progress is being made in realising the ambition for apprenticeship set out in the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025published in April last year. The further development and mainstreaming of apprenticeship in Ireland through the creation of a single unified apprenticeship system has a key role to play in meeting Ireland's skill needs in a manner that presents a valued...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (13 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: The Interim List of Eligible Programmes (ILEP) was introduced as part of a series of reforms to the student immigration system for international education in line with the Government decision of 19 May 2015. These reforms have been designed to - tackle abuse of the immigration regime, - tackle abuse of the labour market, - improve the overall quality of offering to international students, -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy may be aware I have already made improvements to the non-adjacent distance criteria in Budget 2022 for the 2022/23 academic year, reducing the criteria from 45km to 30km to support students who must travel long-distances to their place of education. The table below sets out the estimated number of students that would be affected by changing the SUSI distance criteria from 30km...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 416 and 433 together. The information sought by the Deputy, in regard to the National Training Fund levy in PQ 38641/22 and PQ 38460/22, is being collated with assistance from colleagues of the Department of Social Protection. This Department will supply the information to the Deputy as soon as possible.