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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.

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

James Lawless: The Minster has no plans at this stage to undertake an education trade mission to United States.

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

James Lawless: The following table shows the requested schedule for Department of Further and Higher Education; Research; Innovation and Science, as at 29 January 2025. Name Role Grade Ferghal Blaney Special Adviser - Media Principal Officer (Standard)

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

James Lawless: My Department is strongly committed to supporting the health of the population through the provision of graduates with the key competencies and skills to be effective in the health workforce, and support a range of clinical teams in our health services, including nursing. There has been a significant increase in the number of places available in Nursing programmes in recent years....

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

James Lawless: The information sought by the Deputy in regard to the cleaning services, service officers and security officer roles provided by private companies is set out in the table below. Outsourced cleaning services Value of contract Length of contract Contract A €752,000(Ex Vat) 3 Years ...

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

James Lawless: The information sought by the Deputy in regard to directly employed cleaners and service officers is set out in the below table. - Number of staff Value of contract Length of contract Directly Employed Cleaners 0 N/A N/A Directly Employed Service Officers 2 As per Forsa Payscale ...

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

James Lawless: The mileage expenses for Minister of State Niall Collins have been published, please see the link below. Link is as follows: www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/fc035-ministerial-tra vel-expenses/ The Minister of State had two civilian drivers in 2023 and 2024. The annual cost of overnight allowances is set out in the tables below. Annual cost of overnight allowances related to...

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

James Lawless: Table 1 sets out the composition of the staff in both the private office and constituency office of Minister Lawless as at 4th February 2025. The private office to Minister Lawless is comprised of seven staff while the constituency office is comprised of one staff whose salary is paid by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The Private...

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

James Lawless: This year my Department has secured funding of €2.85 million to start a pilot project to identify the most impactful interventions and supports for students with disabilities. This will inform the process of developing a policy framework on the design and implementation of more flexible, responsive and tailored model of supports, services and work experience opportunities for students...

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

James Lawless: Ireland will take up the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2026. This presents a real opportunity to promote Ireland’s own initiatives and to lead the European education, skills, research, innovation and science agendas. Ireland’s Presidency of the European Union in 2026 will include the negotiations on key policy instruments such as Erasmus...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

James Lawless: There is no slashing of funds.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (23 Jan 2025)

James Lawless: That is not in the programme at all.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (22 Jan 2025)

James Lawless: In 2024, Transport Infrastructure Ireland was nominated to lead the development of a comprehensive national strategy for the future roll-out and expanded use of safety cameras. A draft of this strategy is expected to be completed in the coming months. The Strategy will cover the use of safety cameras across all aspects of the road network, with the objective of saving lives by reducing...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Jan 2025)

James Lawless: The current EU Weights and Dimension sets out the maximum authorised weights and dimensions for heavy-duty goods or passenger vehicles (HDVs) on EU roads. This Directive is given effect in Irish law by the Road Traffic (Construction and Use of Vehicles) Regulations 2003, as amended. The European Commission has proposed a revision of the Weights and Dimensions Directive 96/53/EC and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jan 2025)

James Lawless: As an Island nation, over 90% of Ireland's international trade in volume terms and around 10% of passengers are transported by sea. The core objective of National Ports Policy is to facilitate a competitive and effective market for maritime transport services. In line with this Policy and NDP objectives, the commercial State ports of Dublin, Cork, Shannon Foynes and Waterford, as well as...