Written answers

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Department of Education and Skills

Departmental Data

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of foreign travel episodes arranged by his Department for elected representatives, Ministers and their staff and-or special advisers since 1 January 2018 to date in 2022; and if he will provide a schedule of locations of the travel arranged or advised on, to include the final destination of travel episode, by year, and the full cost of same. [8506/22]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was established in June 2020.

The tables below detail all spending on foreign travel by the department from the establishment of the department to date.

Minister Simon Harris

2021 France (Paris)/Belgium (Brussels) €3,856.81
2021 Northern Ireland (Derry) €1,106.45

Minister of State Niall Collins

2021 Belgium (Brussels) €965.38

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of speech and language therapists who graduated from respective third level colleges in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8520/22]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The data requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table below, broken down by Higher Education Institution, course and year.

HEI /  Course 2018 2019 2020 2021
National University of Ireland, Galway 25 23 22 32
Bachelor of Science (Speech and Language Therapy) 25 23 22 32
Trinity College Dublin 43 42 50 55
Clinical Speech and Language Studies 38 32 38 44
Clinical Speech and Language Studies (Dysphagia) 1 2
MLitt in Clinical Speech and Language Studies 1
PhD in Clinical Speech and Language Studies 2 4 1
Speech and Language Processing 3 5 10 9
University College Cork 19 33 30 33
BSc (Speech and Language Therapy) 19 33 30 33
University of Limerick 30 30 21 22
Doctor of Philosophy Speech and Language Therapy 2
Master of Science Speech and Language Therapy 1
Speech and Language Therapy (Professional Qualification) 28 29 21 22
Grand Total 117 128 123 142

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