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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Oct 2020)

Simon Harris: Universities are autonomous institutions within the meaning of the Universities Act 1997 and the management of their academic affairs, including the delivery of their courses are matters for the individual institutions. However, the Department of Further & Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science would encourage both sides to engage to resolve this matter. ...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Oct 2020)

Simon Harris: Under the Department’s free fees schemes, the Exchequer provides funding toward the tuition fee costs of eligible undergraduate Higher Education students with students paying the student contribution. The student contribution fee is currently set at €3,000 per annum and can be paid in instalments.  The State pays the contribution in full or part, through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: Under the Department's student grant scheme, eligible candidates may receive funding provided they are attending an approved course at an approved institution as defined in the scheme. The definition of an approved institution is set out in Section 7 of the Student Support Act 2011 and Regulation 3 of the Student Support Regulations 2020. In the context of scarce resources, the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: The information as requested by the Deputy is not readily available within the Department. My Department is in the process of working with agencies to collect and collate the data in question and will revert with a reply to the Deputy directly as soon as it is received.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: Requests for funding for Teagasc students is a matter for the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. I have been in contact with my colleague the Minister for Agriculture on this matter and I will refer your query to him for direct response.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: As part of a package of COVID supports for the higher and further education sector approved by Government on 22 July 2020, my Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has allocated €15 million of capital funding for a once-off Covid-19 Grant to support disadvantaged students in accessing ICT devices. This grant is being made available to further and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that there are various income thresholds used depending on the type of grant, family size etc. While SUSI has statistics on those students who have applied for grant support and can estimate with some degree of certainty, what impact changes to the thresholds might have for those students on lower income levels, the accuracy of its estimates become less reliable at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: The development of the LIT Coonagh facility includes two phases of works, an enabling works package and the fit-out works of the former retail development on the site. The enabling works package reached substantial completion in September 2020. The final design and the tender package for the fit-out phase has been completed by LIT and is currently under review by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: There has been no expenditure to date on media monitoring services / private contract operators / in-house services by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: There has been no expenditure to date on media monitoring services, online or hard copy subscriptions since May 2020 by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science”.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (30 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: There has been no expenditure to date on third party companies to conduct media monitoring or on services to provide reports on media coverage by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in the periods in question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 656 and 681 together. The CAO system is a system that works on the assumption that grades obtained in the Leaving Certificate by candidates determine their points. It is on this basis that the CAO system allocates places to applicants including those from different years. To ensure impartiality, the automatic CAO points systems have been created in a way...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 657 and 659 together. Universities and Institutes of Technology are autonomous and determine their own procedures for admission. The CAO process applications for undergraduate, and some postgraduate, courses on their behalf. Decisions on admissions are made by the higher education institutions who then instruct the CAO to make offers to successful...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 658, 666 and 667 together. English language education (ELE) in Ireland is a broad and diverse sector with the vast majority of activity undertaken by private sector providers. I am aware of the challenges that are being encountered in this sector and the substantial impact that the Covid-19 outbreak has had on its students, teachers and providers. As...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: The Student Grant Scheme is administered by the centralised national grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), a business unit of CDETB (City of Dublin Education and Training Board), on behalf of the Department. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter for SUSI to determine. If an individual applicant considers that he/she has been unjustly refused...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: The data provided in the table below is in respect of students who received a grant from SUSI the centralised grant awarding authority, which was established in 2012.  It does not encompass data relating to the 66 awarding authorities who have continued to process renewal applications on a transistionary basis. Breakdown of ApplicationsReceived - Awarded - Refused 2015 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members.  This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (29 Sep 2020)

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 which relate to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. The nationality requirements for the student grant scheme are set out in section 14 of the Student Support Act 2011 and regulation 5 of the Student Support Regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: As part of the package of COVID supports for the higher and further education sector approved by Government on 22 July 2020, my Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has allocated €15 million of capital funding for a once-off Covid-19 Grant to support disadvantaged students in accessing ICT devices. This grant is being made available to further...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (29 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: On the 21stJuly 2020, EU leaders agreed on the next long-term budget for the 2021-2027 period, worth a total of €1,074.3 billion.  They also agreed on the €750 billion recovery effort to help the EU tackle the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  This is still subject to finalisation with the European Parliament. With respect to the budget agreed, the next...