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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department's travel and subsistence expenditure for 2020 and 2021 is set out in the table below. 2020(€'000) 2021 January to May(€'000) Travel and Subsistence (Home and Foreign) €65 €15 Due to the establishment of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy is aware, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was formed in August 2020. The response to this question will be from that date onwards. The following policy reviews have been undertaken by my Department. The eligibility criteria for student grants are reviewed annually by the Department and approved by the Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: The Government has committed to a significant increase in on-site attendance in the tertiary education sector in the next academic year. All parties are agreed that maximising on-site provision for the next academic year is the shared and most powerful objective to meet the needs of our students and learners and the sector. In May the Department established a Working Group to achieve this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: The 40,000 target is for research personnel in enterprise including researchers, technicians and support staff (headcount, not full-time equivalent). In total, there were 27,755 persons engaged in R&D in Irish enterprises in 2019. Of this total, 59.8% or 16,609 persons were employed as researchers, of which 1,966 were PhD qualified researchers. In addition, there were 6,832 (24.6%)...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: Under the terms of the Student Grant 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. To satisfy the terms and conditions of the Student Grant Scheme in relation to progression, a student must be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: Postgraduate education delivered by higher education institutions is critical to Ireland’s research system. In addition to contributing to knowledge, postgraduate researcher education drives participants to develop their own research skills that can be applied in a range of environments, in academia or industry, at home or abroad. Figures from the HEA show that first year...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: Innovation 2020included an action to scope out and develop a successor to the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) to support new investment in research infrastructure, including buildings and equipment. The scoping of a future cycle of PRTLI was undertaken by the then Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation working with the Department of Education and Skills,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: Springboard+ complements the core State-funded education and training system and provides free and subsidised upskilling and reskilling higher education opportunities in areas of identified skills need. Springboard+ 2021 was launched on 14th June 2020. Attached is a full list of courses approved for Springboard+ for each year since 2011 with the breakdown between public and private education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department is not involved in the vaccination programme, and therefore the information requested by the Deputy is not available to me. The Department of Health, as the Department overseeing the rollout, is best placed to provide this information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1051 and 1052 together. Please see the attached table which outlines the number of student enrolments from 2018 to date. The table shows that the number of students studying courses in Law and Legal Studies in Further Education and Training (FET) has been increasing since 2018. The detailed breakdown of courses and enrolments are only accessible since the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1053, 1055 and 1061 together. Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013, craft and general construction workers, persons undertaking on-site security work and persons or classes of persons as may be prescribed by the relevant Minister are required to hold a safety awareness registration card (Safe Pass card). In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: Under S.2(4) of the National Training Fund Act 2000, responsibility for management and control of the investment account of the Fund rests with the Minister for Finance. In compliance with the Act, any balance standing to the credit of the current account of the National Training Fund (NTF) which is not required to meet current expenditure is transferred to the investment account. Following a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 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: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: Under the terms of the Student Grant 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. To satisfy the terms and conditions of the Student Grant Scheme in relation to progression, a student must be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department has been made aware of the issue referred to by the Deputy. Separately, my Department has committed to a review of the decision-making process in relation to the examination of previous complaints on governance issues at the institution. It remains the Department’s intention to conduct this review when circumstances permit which is expected would be possible later this year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department's website is part of gov.ie and its accessibility statement is available on: My Department has not developed any mobile applications. My Department does not hold this information in respect of aegis bodies.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (15 Jun 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: Third Level Costs (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: While the student contribution now stands at €3,000, it is important to recognise that there has been no increase in the student contribution charge since 2014/15 and that currently in excess of 60,000 students have all or part of the student contribution paid on their behalf by the State via the Student Grant Scheme. Please see table attached setting out the estimated net cost to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: A response to this correspondence will issue later this week.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Simon Harris: The Fund for Students with Disabilities provides funding to further and higher education institutions in Ireland to assist them in offering supports and services to eligible students with disabilities so they can participate on an equal basis with their peers. The attached spreadsheet provides the numbers of students supported under the Fund in participating Irish Higher Education...