Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of PhD positions funded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department; the average stipend or salary paid to full-time PhD candidates through these funding streams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35434/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Met Éireann, is a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and, under its Weather and Climate Research Programme, funds full time Ph.D. positions through various instruments. Funding is in part given to cover the Ph.D. student’s stipend, which currently is at a flat rate of €18,500 per annum for up to four years, as per all Irish research funding organisations’ guidelines.

Met Éireann currently funds 3 Ph.D. positions directly (1 x fully Met Éireann funded IRC-Government of Ireland Postgraduate Ph.D., 1 x fully Met Éireann funded Research Call 2021 Ph.D. and 1 x half Met Éireann funded Teagasc Walsh Scholarship Ph.D.) and contributes to the funding of a cohort of 130+ SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science Ph.Ds.

My Department does not hold the requested information in respect of the State Bodies under its aegis.  Arrangements have been made that these State Bodies may be contacted directly by e-mail by members of the Oireachtas, as set out in the table below.