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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a full list of PhD scholarships and awards that will see increased stipends in 2024 (details supplied). [56667/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148 and 149 of 27 September 2023; and to confirm when they will be answered. [57245/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question No. 871 of 11 July 2023; and to confirm when it will be answered. [57246/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff working on a full- and part-time basis, the number of posts in recruitment and number of vacant positions in each of the technological universities (details supplied). [57247/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to September 2021 when TU Dublin appointed ten new secretary/financial controller grade II positions, where eight of these were new posts and only two of these positions were across the three legacy institutions pre-merger, he will confirm whether TU Dublin sought approval from his Department for these appointments. [57248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if TU Dublin will run the commis chef apprenticeship programme on TU Dublin’s Tallaght campus in the coming academic year. [57249/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 proposed consolidation and mergers of institutes of technology to ‘improve resource efficiency, by taking advantage of economies of scale and opportunities for sharing services’ given the circumstances (details supplied); if his Department approved this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1840. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm what reserves TU Dublin holds; how much of these reserves are unencumbered (details supplied); and the actual reserves TU Dublin holds that can be used to offset the deficit. [57251/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he sanctioned retrospectively the appointment of a Chief Operations Officer and of a Deputy President and Registrar at TU Dublin in October 2022, given that he must have been aware at the time of the €10 million increase in salary costs for non-academic roles in the university, the decline in market share leading to a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in light of his admission that the Technological Universities Act 2018 was breached by the appointment of the Chief Operating Officer and of the Deputy President and Registrar in October 2019 at TU Dublin, he will outline what actions his Department took as a response to this breach of the Act. [57253/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if TU Dublin increased student fees for international students and part-time students without Governing Body approval; and if students were reimbursed. [57254/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the President of TU Dublin sought approval from the governing body for the proposed organisation design and were the consultants’ costings showing an increase in salary costs of approximately €10 million shared with the governing body members in advance of a decision to approve or not approve. [57255/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to media reports over the summer period reporting a drop in full-time equivalent students of in excess of 2,400 over the previous year at TU Dublin, and given that the FTE figure is calculated for funding purposes, he will confirm what the actual drop in this FTE figure was for TU Dublin; and what the decrease in funding will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the HEA published student number data by mode of study full-time or part-time, the number of full-time students includes students registered on full-time programmes but who are repeating modules and not completing 60 credits in the year; if the same is true for part-time students; and if the figure for part-time students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the role of President of TU Dublin which was advertised on the basis of it being a seven-year appointment with the option for the governing body, based on a performance review, to extend the appointment for a further three years, he will confirm that the TU Dublin governing body will evaluate the performance of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total spend on legal fees by each of the technological universities for the past five years (details supplied). [57259/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total spend on external consultants by each of the technological universities for the past five years (details supplied). [57260/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: 1863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the development of a 'borrowing framework' for technological universities and a timeline for this framework, given that the absence of such a framework makes it impossible for TUs to borrow money on the financial market to build student accommodation. [1982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the impact that inserting the rights of nature into the Constitution would have on agriculture; whether he supports the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity’s proposal to hold a referendum on the rights of nature; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (14 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: 50. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what engagements he and his officials had with meat and dairy industry lobbyists in relation to his attendance at COP28; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55787/23]