Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 505: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the statutory bodies for which she has responsibility; and the date of establishment of each of these statutory bodies. [3088/08]

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 506: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the annual operating cost for each of the past five years of each statutory body for which she has responsibility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3103/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 505 and 506 together.

The Deputy will be aware that while individual institutions in the education sector have varying degrees of autonomy according to their status and statutory provisions, the Minister has an overarching responsibility for education policy across all levels of the education system and responsibility for funding provided from the Education Vote.

The compilation of the information sought by the Deputy in relation to the annual operating cost for each statutory body for each of the past five years would involve an inordinate amount of administrative time.

The Deputy will also be aware that information on staffing and budgets is available in annual reports and other documents published by various bodies. Many of these reports are available in the Oireachtas Library or can be downloaded from the websites of bodies concerned. Also information on expenditure for a number of bodies is included in my Department's Audited Appropriation Accounts published annually. If the Deputy has any queries in relation to a particular body then officials in my Department would be more than happy to discuss these with her.

Set out below are a list of education related bodies with statutory provisions:

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies — Institute for Advanced Studies Act 1940 (established 1940)

Further Education & Training Awards Council — Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999 (established 2001)

Grangegorman Development Agency — Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005 (established 2006)

Higher Education and Training Awards Council — Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999 (established 2001)

Higher Education Authority — HEA Act 1971 (established 1971)

National Council for Curriculum and Assessment — Education Act 1998 (established 1987)

National Council for Special Education — Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 (established 2003)

National Educational Welfare Board — Education (Welfare) Act 2000 (established 2002)

National Qualifications Authority of Ireland — Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999 (established 2001)

Residential Institution Redress Board — Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (established 2002)

Residential Institution Review Committee — Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (established 2002)

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse — Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000 (established 1999)

Education Finance Board — Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Act 2005 (established 2006)

Royal Irish Academy of Music — 1885 Educational Endowments Act (established 1848)

Royal Irish Academy — 1785 Royal Charter (established 1785)

State Examinations Commission — State Examinations Commission (Establishment) Order 2003 (established 2003)

The Teaching Council — Teaching Council Act 2001 (established 2006)

Vocational Education Committees — VEC Act 1930 (VECs were originally created by the Vocational Education Act 1930, as successors to the Technical Instruction Committees established by the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act 1899.)

Institutes of Technology — Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 and Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999* Some of the Institutes of Technology were originally Regional Technical Colleges established in 1970.

Athlone Institute of Technology, 1970,

Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, 1999,

Institute of Technology Carlow 1970,

Cork Institute of Technology, 1974

Dundalk Institute of Technology 1970

Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, 1997

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology 1972,

Letterkenny Institute of Technology 1971,

Limerick Institute of Technology, 1992

Institute of Technology Sligo, 1970

Institute of Technology Tallaght, 1992

Institute of Technology Tralee 1977,

Waterford Institute of Technology 1970

Dublin Institute of Technology — Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 and DIT Act 1992* The DIT Act 1992 provided for the formation of the Dublin Institute of Technology by bringing together six colleges of higher education formerly under the City of Dublin Vocational Educational Committee.

*See also Institutes of Technology Act 2006

Universities: Irish Universities Act 1908 & Universities Act 1997 (the 1908 Act dissolved the previous Royal University system and created the current National University of Ireland)

National University of Ireland (established 1908)

University College Dublin (established 1908)

University College Cork (established 1845)

National University of Ireland Galway (established 1845)

National University of Ireland Maynooth (established 1997)

Dublin City University (established 1980)

University of Limerick (established 1972)

Trinity College Dublin (established 1592)

National College of Art and Design NCAD Act 1971 (originally founded as a college in 1746, became NCAD in 1971)