Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the two building projects on the TU Dublin Tallaght campus announced by the Minister on the 18 August 2020. [45484/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Co-funding of €7.7m was approved for a new Sports Science, Health and Recreation building for TU Dublin (Tallaght Campus). The institute has a high demand for courses in this area and the Tallaght campus will provide the hub for Sports Science within TU Dublin. The project is currently on site and is due for completion by Q4 2022.

On 18th August 2020 a 5,159m²Culinary Arts, Engineering and Teaching Building was announced for the Tallaght Campus of TU Dublin as part of the Higher Education Public Private Partnership Programme -Bundle 1.

This state-of-the-art building will consist of labs, lecture theatres, classrooms, administration space, and ancillary space. In conjunction with decanted space elsewhere on campus, the new building will increase capacity of the institution by 1,118 students.

Bundle 1 of the Higher Education Public Private Partnership Programme, comprising six projects, is currently at preferred tenderer stage. A Preferred Tenderer has been appointed and the technical and commercial work streams are currently ongoing. It is currently estimated that the programme will achieve financial close in Q4 2022 with construction activities commencing on all six sites thereafter. The construction duration for the projects is in the region of 24 months and hence the facilities are estimated to become operational from Q4 2024 onwards.

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which TU Dublin paid two separate individuals a salary at the president’s grade in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45485/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Sanction was provided for the salary to be applied in the case of any individual occupying the role of President of TU Dublin at a salary level equivalent to that previously applied to the President of the predecessor Dublin Institute of Technology. Under the terms of the TU Act 2018, a person who was the president of a dissolved predecessor institute of technology is entitled to become a fixed-term employee of the relevant newly-established TU for the duration of his or her contract of employment on terms and conditions relating to remuneration no less favourable than those to which the person was subject immediately before the establishment of the relevant TU.

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job title and job description for each person in receipt of a director’s grade salary in TU Dublin on 1 January 2021. [45486/22]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job title and job description for each person in receipt of a director’s grade salary in TU Dublin on 1 October 2021. [45487/22]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job title and job description for each person in receipt of a director’s grade salary in TU Dublin on 1 January 2022. [45488/22]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job title and job description for each person in receipt of a director’s grade salary in TU Dublin on 1 April 2022. [45489/22]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job title and job description for each person in receipt of a secretary financial controller level one grade salary in TU Dublin on 1 April 2022. [45491/22]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job title and job description for each person in receipt of an SLIII grade salary in TU Dublin on 1 April 2022. [45492/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 419, 420, 421, 422, 424 and 425 together.

The specific detail as to which persons are in receipt of which salary at a point in time would be a matter for TU Dublin and is not data which is held by my Department. The email address president@tudublin.ie would be the most appropriate contact details for TU Dublin, should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with his query.

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approval, if any, that was given to TU Dublin to make appointments at director-level since its establishment in January 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45490/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Sanction was provided in July 2021 for the appointment of a number of senior posts at Director and Dean level in TU Dublin to form part of the TU Dublin University Executive Team. This sanction was subject to certain conditions as approved by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money that TU Dublin is projecting to spend on organisational design consultants for the full calendar year 2022. [45494/22]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money that the TU Dublin governing body approved to spend on organisational design consultants when it approved the procurement of these services and appointment of consultants. [45495/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 426 and 427 together.

Technological universities (TUs) are autonomous higher education institutions as provided for under the Technological Universities Act 2018. Section 11 of the 2018 Act provides that a TU shall have a governing body to perform the functions of the university under the Act. In this context neither I nor my Department has a role in relation to the allocation or expenditure of a TU’s budget and as such I have no knowledge of expenditure, real or proposed, of the type referred to by the Deputy.