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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (11 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: I would like to thank the Deputy for the question. The National Gender Equality Dashboard for Higher Education Institutions was developed by Maynooth University's All-Island Research Observatory, and using the Higher Education Authority's Higher Education Institutional Staff Profiles by Gender data, to provide interactive visualisations. The work on the Dashboard was not funded directly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department has disbursed circa €216.27m in capital funding to the Technological University Sector since its inception under a number of capital programmes including the Higher Education Strategic and Infrastructural Fund (HESIF), the Infrastructure and Refurbishment Fund (IURF), the Energy Efficiency Decarbonisation Pathway Programme (EEDPP), the Devolved Capital Grant, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Higher education institutions (HEIs) are autonomous bodies as set out in legislation and are funded in a variety of ways including state grants, competitive funding, tuition fees, and commercial/private income streams. The provision of Higher Education funding on an annual basis is part of overall expenditure management and budgetary policy for Government. Investment in Higher Education is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Artificial Intelligence (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department does not provide any funding on artificial intelligence (AI) systems or research and does not conduct any programs or operations using AI tools. As part of a Memorandum of Understanding, my Department is provided with shared services by the Department of Education’s IT Unit, who provide all support, infrastructure and direction on technology usage directly to my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: A new Student Accommodation Strategy is in development following approval of the long-term policy in January 2024. The Strategy aims to increase supply of state supported student accommodation, reduce the cost of delivery through development of standardised design guidance, promote efficient use of existing building stock through refurbishment and an examination of vacancy, while supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The provision of qualified graduates in Therapy disciplines is a priority for my Department. The delivery of healthcare programmes is complex and requires multiple parts of the health and education systems working together. .Practice education placements are essential to support clinical skills development and the application of theory to patient care and attainment of regulatory required...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: I propose to take Questions Nos. 270 and 272 together. The information requested by the Deputy is not currently available. The latest figure on the ratio of students to teaching staff in higher education published by the OECD indicates a ratio of 23:1. However this data is from 2021, and staffing levels in the higher education sector have been increased significantly in the intervening...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (6 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The information in relation to this question is being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it becomes available.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: There will be statements on the issue later today.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Schemes (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to examine the case of a property in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: 359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to examine the case of pension arrears affecting a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3556/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: My Department received only one request in 2024 from a staff member for special leave to accompany their spouse on EU Leave and this was granted.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Union (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: As the Deputy may be aware, in December 2024 the European Council adopted a set of regulations aimed at helping member states affected by natural disasters. These measures are a direct response to the devastating floods and wildfires that ravaged Central, Eastern and Southern Europe last autumn. The regulation on Regional Emergency Support to Reconstruction (RESTORE) will ensure that EU...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: A new student accommodation strategy is in development following Government approval of the long-term policy in 2024. The policy aims to increase supply of state supported student accommodation, reduce the cost of delivery through development of standardised design guidance, promote efficient use of existing building stock through refurbishment and an examination of vacancy, while supporting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The Student Grant Scheme, administered by SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), provides grant assistance 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 assessment of means under the Student Grant Scheme are applied...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Apprenticeships are national programmes. As far as possible, SOLAS schedule apprentices as soon as possible to their off the job training and at the nearest available training location relative to their home location. If a placement is not available near an apprentice’s home location, they will be called to the next nearest available location. A craft apprentice may decline a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Budget 2025 included a package of measures to support households with the cost of higher education. These measures include a €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee for higher education students that are eligible for the Free Fees Initiative (FFI). As the Deputy will be aware, the student contribution only applies in circumstances where a student is eligible for free fees;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The Research and Innovation Act 2024 provided for the establishment of Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland as Ireland’s new research and innovation funding agency, with the new body coming into being from 1 August 2024. The new agency has been established to oversee competitive research funding across all disciplines, ranging from the arts, humanities and social sciences...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: Budget 2025 included a package of measures to support households with the cost of education. These measures include a €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee for higher education students that are eligible for the Free Fees Initiative (FFI). This reduction followed on from similar once off student contribution reductions in Budgets 2023 and 2024 for free fees eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Responsibilities (5 Feb 2025)

James Lawless: The brief that I received on my appointment as Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science is currently being reviewed for publication and will be made available on my Department's website in the near future.