Written answers

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

  • Education Schemes
    582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive their Solas safepass card given that this one-day course was completed on 29...
  • Education Costs
    583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans in view of the reduction in the student contribution charge for undergraduate students for a corresponding reduction in the...
  • Education Schemes
    585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Cybersecurity Policy
    586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make a...
  • Education Schemes
    588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to undergraduate students in the Marino Institute of Education not being eligible for the recent supports which...
  • Departmental Staff
    589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their...
  • Agriculture Industry
    590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that are being taken to increase and encourage women to pursue a career in farming through education and agriculture courses; and if...
  • Education Policy
    591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update to an organisation (details supplied) on his promise to consult it in various relevant committees convened from...
  • Education Standards
    592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhD researchers who have dropped out of their studies in the past three years in tabular form. [51696/22]
  • Education Schemes
    593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend the free fees scheme to students attending part-time courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51732/22]
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeships currently waiting to start off-the-job training; the expected timeline for the clearing of the backlog; and if he...
  • Education Policy
    599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhDs that are funded through State or State-funded bodies (details supplied); and the estimated number of privately funded PhDs...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the importance of apprenticeships in society moving forward; the steps that his Department is taking to increase staffing levels in...
  • Departmental Staff
    604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the names of each special advisor employed by his Department since 2015, the relevant Minister they worked under and...
  • Education Policy
    605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason part-time students are excluded from the reduction in student fees outlined in the recent Budget; if has attention has been drawn to...
  • Education and Training Boards
    606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on plans for the development of the Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board further education campus on the...
  • Cost of Living Issues
    607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, as an urgent measure, he will look into reforming the need for social work students to do four months unpaid full-time placements, especially...
  • Education Schemes
    608. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Innovate for Ireland scheme will be open for applicants; if he will clarify the criteria potential applicants will need to meet in...
  • Education and Training Provision
    610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown of numbers of PhDs who are funded through State or state-funded bodies (IRC, SFI, HRB, Bord Bia, National...
  • Cost of Living Issues
    613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the various cost-of-living measures for postgraduate and PhD students and researchers that were announced in Budget 2023 will be provided;...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the capital expenditure provided to University College Dublin since 2018, in tabular form. [51858/22]
  • Sport and Recreational Development
    615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with respect to the sale of a large site in Dublin city centre (details supplied), if his Department will consider including a clause in the sale...
  • Budget 2023
    616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact process that will operate for the refund process as announced in Budget 2023 and the criteria for the refund of fees, in each third...
  • Third Level Costs
    617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a college course (details supplied) qualifies for a SUSI grant; if it qualifies for the €1,000 repayment as recently announced in...
  • Further and Higher Education
    618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of progress achieved the main stakeholders in providing an adequate supply of suitably qualified graduates for the marketplace; and if...
  • Third Level Education
    627. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure the continued access to third-level for all students seeking to avail of education at this level; and if he will make a...
  • Third Level Costs
    630. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 4 October 2022, if he will give further consideration to the need to provide the once-off...
  • Further and Higher Education
    631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the number of places in further and higher education facilities in the 2023/2024 academic year to study speech and language...
  • Departmental Consultations
    632. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagements that his Department has had with the Department of Health, the HSE and the Higher Education Authority since July 2020 to identify...

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