Results 21-40 of 333 for 5 million speaker:Simon Harris

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...are members of the Irish Traveller community has improved marginally but still remains disappointingly low. Recent data for 2021/22 indicates that the current number of Traveller new entrants is 52. The current National Access Plan targets 150 new entrants from the Traveller community by 2028. Learners from the Traveller and Roma communities are priority target groups under the new...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...regional investment, skills and employment retention and creation, increased access to higher education, ensuring greater equity and countering educational disadvantage. A national network of 5 TUs stretches across some 25 campuses, bringing the advantages and potential of university-driven skills and innovation to communities across the country. Higher education access is being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (5 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ...body, address the wider struggles and challenges for students, and deliver sustainable progress across the higher education sector. Budget 2022 provided an additional dedicated investment of €35 million. (€5 million over 7 years) to support the objectives of the National Access Plan. Part of this funding has been allocated to a new PATH initiative - PATH 4. PATH 4...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (29 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...our Future to address basic funding needs also serves as a standard for the sustainable funding of additional spaces. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:In May 2022, I announced funding of €3 million a year to 2025 in order for higher education institutions to implement universal design and inclusive practices on their campuses in order to improve the opportunities for students in...

Apprenticeship and Further Education and Training: Statements (22 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...have gone above and beyond in working with us to provide additional capacity to work through that backlog. That Covid-19 backlog peaked at approximately 11,000 people. It is now down to just over 5,000 and SOLAS has told me it has a plan in place to seek to eradicate that backlog during the remainder of this year. Along with the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, I am keeping in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (13 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...journals, ebooks, databases and index and abstracting services. In 2020 the Technological University (TU) Transformation Fund administered by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) allocated € 1.2 million to TU Dublin for IReL related activity. In 2021 and 2022 the HEA delivered €2.6 million to IReL for the support of transformative agreements and €300,000 for IReL...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ..., the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, the Department of Foreign Affairs, CERN, and ultimately with Dáil Éireann. The associated annual cost of €1.8 million for each of the five years, of the initial period of associate CERN membership, must be secured through the Estimates process before Ireland can submit an application. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: ...initiative benefited from a once off reduction in the Student Contribution rate of €1,000 for the 2022/2023 academic year;PhD students funded by the SFI and the IRC benefited from a once off payment of €500 in the current academic year; andPost Graduate Students who met the eligibility criteria for a Postgraduate Fee Contribution Grant benefited from a once off increase in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (30 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...of the Commission have risen steadily over recent years. The Commission is funded under its own Vote as of the 1st of January 2020, the Commissioner now being Accounting Officer. The Commission received an allocation of €26.2 million under Budget 2023, an increase of €3m from 2022 and a more than seven-fold from its 2015 allocation of €3.6m. The Commission has seen...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: My Department has allocated €5 million to the Higher Education Authority for mental health and well-being services this year in Higher Education Institutes. As autonomous bodies, the internal disbursement of mental health and well-being funding, including the funding of student services, such as support for people dealing with gambling addiction, is a matter for each Institute so...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Misuse of Drugs (18 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: ...in the area of drugs, and this policy is guided by the national drugs and alcohol strategy 'Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery - a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025'. This strategy represents a whole-of-Government response to this problem area in Ireland. I can assure the Deputy that An Garda Síochána are aware of the issues surrounding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Addiction Services (18 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: My Department has allocated €5 million to the Higher Education Authority for mental health and well-being services this year in Higher Education Institutes. As autonomous bodies, the internal disbursement of mental health and well-being funding, including the funding of student services, such as support for people dealing with gambling addiction, is a matter for each Institute so...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Mar 2023)

Simon Harris: ...and success for Irish Travellers in Higher Education. The most recent National Access Plan sets out the situation starkly. 1% of Travellers have a third level qualification, compared to 55% of the population. Collectively, we need to do much better. Gathering accurate data on Irish Traveller participation in higher education is difficult and is highly dependent on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Simon Harris: ...benefited from a once off reduction in the Student Contribution rate of €1,000 for the 2022/2023 academic year; - PhD students funded by the SFI and the IRC benefited from a once off payment of €500 in the current academic year; and - Post Graduate Students who met the eligibility criteria for a Postgraduate Fee Contribution Grant benefited from a once off increase in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Antisocial Behaviour (22 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...the local chief superintendent. I will feed back the concerns of the Deputies. On the issue of overtime, which Deputy Ó Snodaigh raised, we have increased the overtime budget for An Garda Síochána by €5 million this year, which brings the total budget to more than €100 million. We will stand firmly with the community of Ballyfermot. We will support the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (14 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ..., undergraduate students and postgraduate students who are in receipt of the Special Rate of Grant. - PhD students funded by the SFI and the IRC are also benefitting from a once off payment of €500 in the current academic year. - Post Graduate Students who meet the eligibility criteria for a Postgraduate Fee Contribution Grant are benefitting from a once off increase in their grant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...initiative benefitted from a once off €1,000 reduction in the Student Contribution rate for the 2022/2023 academic year, reducing the contribution from €3,000 to €2,000. For those on the 50% Student Contribution rate, as paid by SUSI, students benefitted proportionally and this reduction will mean that the balance the student pays to their higher education institution...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Estimates provide for a gross expenditure of over €3.4 billion across the six Votes in my Department and the justice sector, €3.134 billion of which relates to current expenditure and €293.5 million in capital expenditure. In addition, an amount of €5 million in unspent capital from 2022 has been carried over to 2023, bringing the total capital allocation...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...area this year. On the Criminal Assets Bureau, we only have the 2021 figures until such time as the 2022 report comes to the Government and is published. The 2021 figures show that CAB seized more than €3 million in assets and oversaw the return of more than €5 million to the Exchequer in the course of that year. We intend to review the CAB legislation. It needs to be...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...children and young people, and crucially heard their views on what a reformed system should look like. The strategy, which will be implemented over the next three years, has nine goals and more than 50 actions, with the aim of establishing a strong foundation for a future system which is more child- and family-centred, which supports and protects, and which is more streamlined and user...