Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 283: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will require UCD to reinstate the BA Evening Course in Irish. [30184/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that the universities are autonomous institutions and my Department does not have any function in their day to day operational affairs. The universities receive a block grant from the Higher Education Authority and it is a matter for each institution to determine how it is allocated internally.