Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7906/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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There are seven bodies under the aegis of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, six of these are non-commercial state bodies and one is a company limited by guarantee which cannot issue shares or pay a dividend. Accordingly, I can confirm to the Deputy that there is no record of dividends received from any of the bodies under the aegis of this Department.