Written answers

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

  • Departmental Policies
    1334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy initiatives his Department supports to protect academic freedom in third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27069/23]
  • Third Level Education
    1336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 940 of 23 May 2023, if he will provide the full-and first-year cost to the Exchequer from the one-off...
  • Departmental Funding
    1337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the gap that was closed via Budget 2023, following his Future Funding in Higher Education report published in June 2022, in which...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 722 of 9 May 2023, the total number of craft and consortia apprenticeships currently in the system, in...
  • Student Accommodation
    1339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 19 May 2022, the number of on-campus student accommodation places or places in accommodation owned...
  • Education Schemes
    1340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the deadline for a training fund (details supplied) beyond 1 November 2023, given that the majority of the fund remains...
  • Grant Payments
    1342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what continual funding will be put in place to ensure that the SUSI grant payments are reflective to the cost of living; and if he will make a...
  • Student Travel Card
    1343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason apprentices cannot get a student ID card, given that a number of apprentices have been refused access to various premises despite the...
  • Departmental Funding
    1344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if future legislation is planned in the regulation of capitation fees in HEIs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27242/23]
  • Education and Training Provision
    1345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a part-time apprenticeship course is available for people with disabilities (details supplied).. [27256/23]
  • Third Level Fees
    1346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the student registration fee for 2023-2024 will remain the same as last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27292/23]
  • Educational Reform
    1347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the integration into the higher education framework in a region of an institution (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Education and Training Provision
    1348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action his Department is taking to attract people into agricultural and heavy vehicle mechanics apprenticeships, in view that there is a...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if universities will be able to avail of Government plans to provide solar photovoltaic panels as part of the summer works scheme; and if he...
  • Departmental Funding
    1350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update with regard to the Technological University Development Fund, the proposed successor to the Technological...
  • Student Accommodation
    1353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his awareness of the issues of the subsidisation of college-owned student accommodation but not for extensions of already built accommodation;...
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    1355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of cases where non-disclosure agreements in third-level institutions have been used and placed upon a student or staff member;...
  • Prison Service
    1356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanism for interested parties to make submissions to the Task Force on Prison Education; and if he will accept a submission or...
  • Third Level Education
    1357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he aware that the HEA has written to the recently formed Technological Universities informing them that they will be substantially reducing...
  • Departmental Communications
    1358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of social media videos posted on each of his Departmental social media accounts, or the social media accounts of public bodies...
  • Departmental Policies
    1359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department, and public bodies and agencies under his remit, have an anti-racism policy which can be accessed by the public; and if he...
  • Third Level Education
    1363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be called to college as he is 18 months into his electrical apprenticeship; and if he will be given a...
  • Technological Universities
    1366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he can provide an update with regard to the Technological University Development Fund, the proposed successor to the Technological University...
  • Veterinary Services
    1367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a further update will be provided regarding the establishment of a new veterinary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Third Level Education
    1368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he intends the Committees of the Board, known as Councils, as part of the new national research agency referenced in the Research and...
  • Departmental Meetings
    1370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with the CEO of an organisation (details supplied) to date in 2023; when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO; and if he will make...
  • Third Level Education
    1371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the SUSI grant application case of a person (details supplied) on the basis of fairness and justice where the special rate...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    1372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure that was followed in the appointment of the CEO of the new agency to be created arising from the anticipated amalgamation of SFI...
  • Industrial Relations
    1373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in respect of the engagement between unions representing personal assistants in ETBs and his Department in relation...
  • Student Accommodation
    1374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement he has had with TUS, Athlone in relation to student accommodation for the upcoming academic year; and if he will make a statement...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    1375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend on consulting services and on ‘business-as-usual’ outsourcing, as differentiated under the Code of...
  • Technological Universities
    1376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update with regard to the technological university development fund, the proposed successor to the technological...
  • Third Level Costs
    1377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of covering subscription costs of publishing and access for HEIs across Ireland with the aim of open access for all students;...
  • Departmental Data
    1379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff seconded to his Department from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the title and/or role they...
  • Third Level Education
    1381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason universities that are providing courses in radiation therapy have not increased their student capacity (details supplied); if...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28341/23]
  • Further and Higher Education
    1384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 1 June 2023, to detail what additionality he has secured in conjunction with the Higher Education...
  • Grant Payments
    1387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a change of circumstances of reckonable income was not taken into consideration for a student's (details supplied) SUSI application...
  • Data Protection
    1388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the security protections in place for remote workers within civil and public service organisations to safeguard against personal information of...

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