Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of increasing funding to third level institutions by 1%. [38561/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The 2019 Allocation of recurrent exchequer funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) designated institutions and the directly funded higher education institutions is in the order of €1 billion. To increase this allocation by 1% would incur a full-year cost in the order of €10million.