Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 486: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on Trinity College's recent announcement to terminate its three year professional actor training programme, The Bachelor in Acting Studies; and the repercussions this decision is expected to have for those potential acting students as this course was the only one of its kind here. [3430/07]

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.