Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the amount of funding allocated by his Department to each third level institution in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17721/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My Department allocates the recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates the funding to institutions and it is then a matter for the individual institution as to how that funding is allocated internally.

Details on the total recurrent funding allocated by the HEA to each of the higher education institutions under its designation, for the years 2006 to 2016, is set out in the following tables. It should be noted that not all of the 2016 funding is fully allocated at this time by the HEA. Allocations for nursing was transferred to my Department from the Department of Health mid-way through the relevant time period (2011) and are provided separately.

Details on recurrent funding allocated to the Universities and Colleges by the HEA:

Details on recurrent funding allocated to the Institutes of Technology by the HEA:

* TRBDI linked to Limerick IoT from 2013 onwards

** funding for Killybegs provided through Letterkenny IoT from 2008/09 onwards

Details on recurrent funding allocation in respect of Nursing:

Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated costs of restoring the per capita funding at third level to 2010 levels taking into account projected demographic increases in the sector over each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17722/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The overall level of core funding resources in the higher education sector (from the state, student contributions, tuition fees and other income sources) has remained reasonably stable since 2010. However, the significant increase in student numbers has resulted in a decrease in the level of funding resource per student. It is estimated that at current student numbers, it would cost in the region of €240 million to restore the level of resource per student to 2010 levels. In addition, an estimate of the additional State funding required over the next five year period to accommodate likely growth in numbers is detailed in the following table.

Table 1: Core Income of HEA-funded HEIs

Table 2: Estimates Costs for Restoration and Demographics

2. Cost estimates are based on Full-time equivalent student numbers in HEA-funded institutions.

3. Direct comparisons between the block grant funding per student in 2010 and 2016 are difficult as increases in the student contribution were matched by decreases in the block grant.

4. In the order of €240 million would be required to bring the overall per capita amount to 2010 levels i.e. from €9,522 to €10,789.

5. The estimates provided for 2017 - 2021 take account of demographic increases costed at 2010 level of funding per student. Please note that HEIs supplement state funding with student contributions, tuition fees and other income sources. These estimates relate only to the estimated additional cost to the State assuming that the student contribution remains at €3,000 and the proportion of state:non-state funding remains constant.

6. These figures do not include any additional costs to the student support budget.