Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which chaplaincy services at a college (details supplied) in County Louth were not advertised or tendered for when a successor was sought for the person who up until 2010 had provided those services. [26136/15]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis - statutory, regulatory or otherwise - on which the Roman Catholic chaplaincy services in institutes of technology are funded in cases in which these roles have been neither tendered for nor advertised publicly. [26137/15]

Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis - statutory, regulatory or otherwise - on which chaplaincy appointments are made in institutes of technology. [26195/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 500, 501 and 541 together.

Institutes of Technology, as autonomous institutions under the terms of the Institutes of Technology Acts are responsible for the day to day management of their own affairs, including matters relating to the recruitment of staff. Therefore the basis on which chaplaincy appointments are made are matters for the institutes themselves and, for that reason I have no function in relation to the issues raised by the Deputy.