Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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1229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of Irish Research Council funding provided to each higher education institute and research-performing organisation in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21171/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Research Council (IRC) is an associated agency of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, under the aegis of the HEA. The IRC’s mandate from government is to:

- Fund excellent research within, and between, all disciplines, and in doing so to enhance Ireland’s international reputation as a centre for research and learning

- Support the education and skills development of excellent individual early-stage researchers and to cultivate agile independent researchers and thinkers, while offering a range of opportunities which support diverse career paths

- Enrich the pool of knowledge and expertise available for addressing Ireland’s current and future needs, whether societal, cultural or economic, and to deliver for citizens through collaboration and enabling knowledge exchange with Government departments and agencies, enterprise and civic society

- Provide policy advice on postgraduate education, and on more general research matters, to the HEA and other national and international bodies. In giving us this role, Government requested that particular attention be given to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

The IRC operates within and is guided by Ireland’s national policy framework for higher education and research, including the national framework for doctoral education. The IRC runs open competitive calls for individual postgraduate awards which can be held at any eligible research-performing institution. The relevant schemes comprise:

- Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme

- Enterprise Partnership Scheme

- Employment-based Postgraduate Programme

The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table.