Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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1141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that University College Dublin provides to the Museum of Literature. [62978/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates this funding as a block grant to the institutions. As autonomous bodies, the internal disbursement of this funding is a matter for the individual institution.

Notwithstanding the above, to assist the Deputy, details were sought from University College Dublin (UCD) ,via the HEA, to confirm the position. UCD advise that that no funding is provided from UCD to the Museum of Literature Ireland (MOLI) and that MOLI is expected to meet its net costs from its own income.