Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a list will be provided of higher education institutions that continue to charge repeat exam fees for modules taken during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5170/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Higher Education Institutions are autonomous institutions within the meaning of the Universities Act 1997, the Institutions of Technology Acts 1992 to 2006 and the Technological Universities Act 2018. Under this legislation the institutions are academically independent and are entitled to regulate their own academic affairs and administrative processes, including in relation to repeat exams. Neither I nor my Department have a role in setting fees for repeat exams and therefore the information sought by the Deputy is not held by my Department. However, as the Deputy knows, I am encouraging institutions to demonstrate flexibility on these matters.