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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Broadband Plan (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The Department of Further and Higher Education Research Innovation and Science has not been directly engaged with National Broadband Ireland (NBI) but HEAnet, the Education sectors shared service network provider has attended several technical workshops with NBI over the past two years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department aims to provide its customers with a professional, efficient and courteous service and does not distinguish between unsolicited and solicited correspondence. A full statement of commitments contained within my Department’s Customer Charter can be found on gov.ie at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/045e7-customer-charter/ The Customer Charter underpins the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The Youthreach programme is a national programme of education and training for early school leavers. The Youthreach programme provides two years integrated education, training and work experience for unemployed early school leavers without any qualifications or vocational training, who are between 16 and 21 years of age. The programme offers participants the opportunity to identify and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The purpose of the Student Grant Scheme is to provide additional assistance where parental income is below a certain threshold, or in the case of independent mature students, where the level of income of the student and his or her spouse warrants additional assistance by way of a grant. For student grant purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: Universities are autonomous bodies under the Universities Act 1997, and are therefore administratively independent, including in relation to their accommodation allocation practices. Therefore the information requested by the Deputy would be held by the universities themselves, not by my Department. The synopsis available in the attached table was provided by the Universities for the National...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The enrolment statistics for the 2020/2021 academic year, which will include the statistics in relation to international students, have not yet been published. The HEA will publish these statistics later this year. The financial impact of the pandemic on international students will vary depending on the student, and there is no information available to me on the financial impact on this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department is committed to keeping its website accessible, in line with the accessibility statement available on gov.ie. My Department uses Plain English online, avoids the use of PDF documents as much as possible, and ensures that all video content produced for use online is captioned. My Department has not developed any mobile applications. My Department does not hold this information...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has put in place a Disability Consultative Committee as mandated under Action 32 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021. The Committee held its first meeting in June, with the next meeting scheduled for September.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The Government has committed to planning for a significant increase in onsite attendance in the tertiary education sector in the next academic year. Following consultation with sectoral stakeholders and following Government approval, I published A Safe Return: Plan for a safe return to on-site Further and Higher Education and Research in 2021/22. The Plan reflects the essential...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The processing of US student visas, and the provision of appointments at US Embassies, is solely a matter for the US authorities. Officials in my department have brought this issue to the attention of officials in Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Department of Foreign Affairs have informed us that they have raised the issue with the US Embassy in Dublin, encouraging them to process...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jul 2021)

Simon Harris: The latest year for which the data is available is 2018 and is presented in the table below. - Primary level Post-primary level Total expenditure € 3,784,796,714 € 3,490,341,316 Annualized full-time equivalent* enrolment 562,331 416,410 Expenditure per student ...