Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 258: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years and the number of such staff who were subsequently re-assigned to duties appropriate to their new qualifications. [45330/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The following table details the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years:

Third level education is supported by the Department on the basis that the qualification being pursued will enable the officers concerned to make a more effective contribution to the work of the Department. The Department has a mobility policy for administrative grades, which means that staff are required to undertake a variety of assignments over the course of their career and decisions on support for third level education take account of that policy.