Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 742: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a course in the adult education centre of a university (details supplied) in County Dublin was cancelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34188/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that the universities are run as autonomous institutions. They are also academically independent and my Department does not have any function in the day to day operational affairs of such colleges. Decisions on staffing arrangements and programme provision are made by the universities themselves. 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.