David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 356: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 10 April 2008, the amount of money made available by Science Foundation Ireland for the SFI Young Women in Engineering Scholarship each year for the past three years respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14715/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Science Foundation Ireland/DELL Scholarship — Young Women in Engineering aims to attract and encourage more high-achieving young women into third-level education in engineering disciplines. The Scholarship is supported by DELL which supplies all the scholars with laptop computers. The scheme was introduced in academic year 2006 / 2007 so to date awards were made in 2006 / 2007 and 2007 / 2008. The awards have generally been made for €8,000 per person spread over a designated four-year degree course, i.e. €2,000 per person per year. Awards have been made to ten young women in 2006 and to a further ten young women in 2007. The total amount awarded to date is €158,000. A further round of awards will take place for academic year 2008 / 2009.