Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding invested in an institute (details supplied) for 2018. [3766/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The Institute referred to by the Deputy is a body corporate established under the Institute for Advanced Studies Act, 1940.  The Institute, through its three constituent schools, pursues fundamental research in specialised branches of knowledge and trains advanced students in methods of original research. The Institute is an academic publisher of monographs, books and journals in Celtic Studies and on advanced scientific subjects.

The Institute awards scholarships to a number of students and also accommodates students from the Universities and externally funded research bodies.  

The allocation for the Institute amounts to €6.73m in 2018.