Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is appropriate funding support available through his Department to run an outreach certificate programme (details supplied). [23650/17]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is appropriate European Union funding available to run an outreach certificate programme (details supplied). [23651/17]

John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 111 together.

My Department allocates all of the recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions, including the Universities such as University College Dublin (UCD).

The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual institution. Universities are autonomous bodies as set out in the Universities Act 1997 and are responsible for their own day to day affairs, including the allocation of all of its income (both public and private).