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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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for his well made and passionate points. The points made by the INTO are valid. I will convey the Deputy's views on the matter to the Minister, Deputy Foley. I am sure he has already done so. My Department stands ready to work with the Departments of Education and Health to increase the graduate supply. The other matters are for the Department of Education but I will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for the question. My Department, the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, and I are strongly committed to supporting the well-being of the population through the provision of graduates with the key competencies and skills to be effective in health and education workforces and to support a range of public services, including educational psychology. While colleges...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: Absolutely. The role of our Department is to provide, working with our sector, the capacity and pathways for graduates, as well courses and upskilling and reskilling across a range of public services. When the HSE and the Department of Health complete their work on their psychology review with the Department of Education, we stand ready to do more on this. The Deputy is entirely right....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for raising this extremely important matter. Bystander training can be a crucial intervention to help educate people about sexual and domestic violence prevention. This type of training programme can highlight the danger of normalising abusive behaviour. It cultivates an understanding of people's capacity to intervene and it can provide learners with a safe environment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. I will certainly familiarise myself with that American example. Much progress has been made by the higher education sector in recent years, as, quite frankly, it had to be made. We need to take these programmes out from behind the walls of the universities and make them more widely available across society. Professor Crowley has led in that regard. There has also been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: The colleges and schools have been contacted. The first letter I wrote to university presidents when I took up this role was not about the important issue of future funding and the like but was about the whole issue of sexual harassment and consent. We wrote to every university president and requested that they put in place a plan for their institutions. We asked how each of the presidents...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Simon Harris: Perfect. I will give it my best shot. I agree with Deputy Conway-Walsh that all of us in the House should condemn anybody who attempts to price-gouge in the middle of a horrific illegal invasion and massive humanitarian crisis. I will talk to her in more detail about that. Deputy Murnane O'Connor is right that as we develop the technological universities, and there is one in the south...