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Other Questions: Research Funding (15 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: I will take it.

Other Questions: Research Funding (15 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: My Department provides Science Foundation Ireland with its annual budget and SFI, in turn, invests in academic research and research teams. The funding generates new knowledge, leading edge technologies and competitive enterprises in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. SFI provides funding across a range of "oriented basic research" through to "applied research"....

Other Questions: Research Funding (15 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: SFI's budget of €167 million in 2016 is already allocated. To break this down, and to respond to the Deputy's question, based on information from higher education research and development, HERD, 50.9% of expenditure this year in the higher education system on research is on basic research and the rest is divided between applied research at 43.4% and experimental research at 5.7%. ...

Other Questions: Research Funding (15 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: I will get that to the Deputy.

Other Questions: Research Funding (15 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: The Deputy's question is very relevant, and I will be very brief in my answer. As I indicated earlier, I contacted Science Foundation Ireland and asked them to meet me within a few weeks so that we can discuss the priorities, the provisional deadline and so on. As I said, any Deputy in the House who is interested in the sciences, research and development and so on will be welcome to come to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (16 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Learners who are in receipt of One Parent Family or Disability payment continue to receive these payments from the Department of Social Protection while participating in certain education and training programmes, including the Local Training Initiative. Learners who were in receipt of Job Seekers Benefit or Job Seekers Allowance receive a training allowance in lieu of their Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Changes to my Department's Primary School Transport Scheme were announced in December 2010 by the then Government as part of measures contained in Budget 2011 and derived from recommendations contained in the Value for Money review of the scheme. The changes announced covered the uniform application of the distance eligibility criterion, the cessation of the Closed/Central School Rule, an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Under the terms of my Department's Post Primary School Transport Scheme children are eligible for transport where they reside not less than 4.8 kilometres from and are attending their nearest education centre as determined by my Department/Bus Éireann, having regard to ethos and language. Bus Éireann, which operates the school transport scheme, has advised that there is a school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Éireann (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: The Deputy will be aware that payments made to Bus Éireann, which operates the School Transport Scheme on behalf of my Department are in line with the Summary of Accounting Arrangements relating to the Transport Scheme for Primary and Post-Primary School Children dated 1 January 1975. My Department receives an Annual Statement of Account in respect of the School Transport Scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: The Deputy will be aware that a minimum number of 10 eligible children residing in a distinct locality, as determined by Bus Éireann, is required before consideration may be given to the establishment of a school transport service, provided this can be done within reasonable cost limits. In this regard, Bus Éireann has advised that a sufficient number of children, who are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Some €23 million in funding was provided by my Department in 2006 for the provision of adult literacy services. Funding in the region of €30 million was provided by my Department for each of the years 2007 to 2013. At the beginning of 2014 SOLAS took over the allocation of monies for all further education and training programmes, including the literacy service, with funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: The Deputy will be aware that a minimum number of 10 eligible children residing in a distinct locality, as determined by Bus Éireann, is required before consideration may be given to the establishment of a school transport service, provided this can be done within reasonable cost limits. In this regard, Bus Éireann has advised that a sufficient number of children, who are...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: 259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered urgently legislating for a moratorium on family home evictions until such time as a reasoned solution to the family housing crisis is formulated by the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17236/16]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Thank you, Chairman. I congratulate you as well. As someone from my constituency I am delighted that you are chairing this committee. I welcome everyone from the various parties. As Minister of State with responsibility for skills and apprenticeship my remit takes in enterprise, innovation, school buses, SOLAS and anything else one can think of, including the European Space Agency. If...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: I will take as many questions as I can. I ask the Deputy to come back to me if I miss any questions. On the issue of funding for basic scientific research, statistical evidence for the academic year 2012-13 shows that 50.9% of the total higher education research and development budget was on basic research, which has shown very little change. My Department provides Science Foundation...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Yes.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: The Deputy may be correct. It is clear from Innovation 2000 that there is a commitment to establish a competitive fund across all the disciplines and sites to support research that is being done that might be under funded and new research that is coming on board, so the commitment is there. This fund will be established and administered by the research council. There is a commitment to at...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Knowledge Transfer Ireland, KTI, has been tasked with helping companies to innovate and bridge the gap. Already I have met a number of businesses associated with the sciences and they do have some reservations. Overall, as I said earlier, there are 50 business companies dealing exclusively in science and science technology on a level with Europe which would not have been the case ten or 12...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: Conscious of Innovation 2020, most of the funding goes to SFI. I have asked Science Foundation Ireland to recommend how science, technology and innovation could best serve the Irish economy in employment, development, reconfiguration of the sciences itself and in dealing with Europe and worldwide issues. They will revert to me in the next couple of weeks. Let me repeat that members of the...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (21 Jun 2016)

John Halligan: That 11% reduction was not a cut but a reallocation of that amount to Science Foundation Ireland, which was tasked with redistributing it to the programme for research in third level education.