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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The National Training Fund (NTF) Act, 2000 provides for a levy on employers to be used to fund the development of and raising of skills amongst those in, or seeking, employment. Funding from the NTF is allocated by my Department with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in accordance with the provisions of the National Training Fund Act, 2000. The NTF levy is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy on construction costs is not held by my Department. My Department is not directly involved in the building of any student accommodation. The National Student Accommodation Strategy (NSAS) was published in 2017 and is designed to support the delivery of an increased level of supply of purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) by reducing planning...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1329, 1330, 1332 and 1334 together. My Department has received representations from Erasmus+ students following the decision to extend the list of countries subject to mandatory quarantine at a designated facility on arrival in Ireland. At present, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Italy are the Erasmus+ Programme Countries in this category. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1331 and 1333 together. The Deputy should note that Board appointments, while made by me as Minister, are not in all cases made at my discretion. Individuals may be nominated for appointment by various organisations arising from the terms in the relevant statutes of the Body concerned. The guidelines for appointments to State Boards, which can be viewed on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: Clinical placements are organised at the level of each individual Higher Education Institution (HEI), as part of their programme offerings to be delivered in conjunction with relevant placement providers. Where appropriate, each HEI will develop their programme offerings to meet the accreditation standards of relevant regulatory and professional recognition bodies including where placements...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The building proposed for delivery in WIT under the HEI PPP Programme is a 12,834m2 Engineering, Computing and General Teaching building. It will consist of undergraduate and postgraduate laboratories, general and specialised teaching space, learning resource space, administration space and ancillary space. In conjunction with decanted space elsewhere on campus, the new building will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: Under the Student Grant Scheme, grant assistance is available to eligible students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the terms and conditions of funding, including those relating to residency, means, nationality and previous academic attainment. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for SUSI to determine. For...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: I appreciate how difficult the situation is for this group and their families. The Government has always sought to ensure that the concerns of workers are heard, and that the State’s welfare, employment and training services are responding to the needs of the group in question. In recognition of the exceptional circumstances to this matter the Government has agreed to provide a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: Under the Student Grant Scheme, grant assistance is available to eligible students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the terms and conditions of funding, including those relating to residency, means, nationality and previous academic attainment. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for SUSI to determine. For the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The data that the deputy is seeking is available in tabular form from 2011/12 to 2017/18 and is attached. Data from academic year 2018/19 to date is not available as of yet as it has not been finalised. The ratio is calculated based on the enrolment figures for full time equivalent (FTE) students (full and part time) in an academic year to academic staff reported as at 31 Dec in the middle...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The advancement of research collaboration, as set out within New Decade, New Approach is a major priority for my Department. As the Deputy notes, this has also been highlighted as an area of priority by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) as part of its recently launched strategy, Shaping our Future. My Department and SFI are continuing to advance the discussions with our counterparts in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The fee payable by a student can vary depending on a variety factors including the type of course and the student's access route including previous education. Entry to medicine in Irish HEIs is provided through both undergraduate and graduate entry routes. Under the Department's Free Fees Initiative, the Exchequer pays tuition fees on behalf of eligible first time undergraduate students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Asylum Seekers (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The student support scheme for asylum seekers is for students who are in the protection system or at the leave to remain (but not deportation order) stage and who are pursuing an approved Post Leaving Certificate course or an approved undergraduate course. It provides supports along similar lines to the current Student Grant Scheme (the SUSI scheme) to eligible applicants who are in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The cost of including all prospective students, as referenced by the Deputy, under the free fees criteria are not available. The Department of Justice adjudicates on a person's entitlement to remain in the State and on the stamp that is awarded where permission to remain is sanctioned. As the Deputy will be aware, the fee payable by a student can vary depending on a variety factors including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Refugee Status (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department. Refugee status of students is not recorded on the HEA's student records system, which is my Department's main source of statistics on students in higher education institutions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: I wish to advise the Deputy that in accordance with the methodology used in the Institutional Profiles (published by the Higher Education Authority) the current academic staff:student ratio in Universities is recorded at 20:1. This is calculated based on the 2019/20 enrolment figures for full time equivalent (FTE) students (full and part time) to all academic staff as at 31 Dec 2019. A two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department was established in July 2020. Its approach to the filling of board posts for bodies under its aegis is informed by guidance notes issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, guidance which includes the 2014 Guidelines on Appointments to State boards, the 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies, and also the 2020 publication by D/PER of an Annex...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Back to Education Allowance (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is not available. The back to education allowance is a Department of Social Protection scheme. The Student Assistance Fund is administered locally by the Higher Education Institutions. The Student Assistance Fund (SAF) provides financial support to full- and part-time students who are experiencing financial difficulties while attending higher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: On 20 November 2020 I received a joint application under section 29(1) of the Technological Universities Act 2018 from Athlone Institute of Technology and Limerick Institute of Technology seeking technological university designation. On 21 December 2020, I appointed an advisory panel to assess the application and to furnish a report thereon to the HEA. The advisory panel’s report...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Caiteachas Ranna (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: Déanann mo Roinn maoiniú athfhillteach a dháileadh ar an Údarás um Ard-Oideachais (ÚAO) don íocaíocht amach go díreach chuig institiúidí ardoideachais ainmnithe an ÚAO. Déanann an ÚAO an maoiniú seo a dháileadh mar bhlocdheontas chuig na hinstitiúidí. Mar chomhlachtaí uathrialacha, baineann...