Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in a full year if the student to staff ratio in institutes of technology decreased from 23:1 to 21:6. [53353/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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While currently the staff: student ratio across the University sector is 23:1, it is lower in the Institutes of Technology sector, with the current ratio at 19:1.

Higher education is a key priority for this Government. This is evidenced in the fact that we will be investing €60 million in additional funding in 2018. Combined with the increase in funding in 2017, this means that we will be investing €100m more in higher education in 2018 than in 2016.