Written answers

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

  • Education and Training Boards
    1813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when increments were last paid to casual workers employed by Donegal ETB at an educational setting (details supplied); the reason no increments...
  • Capital Expenditure Programme
    1815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s processes that consider the value for money question understanding that in 2017 a project build (details supplied) was...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a review of the requirement for certain apprenticeship applicants to pass the Ishihara colour vision test without the use of...
  • Period Poverty
    1817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budgetary amount allocated to the provision of a range of free, adequate, safe and suitable period products in all educational...
  • Grant Payments
    1820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider extending the SUSI grant scheme to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56648/23]
  • Further and Higher Education
    1822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if recipients of the Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Award will receive the same increase in their stipends as...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason motor mechanic apprentices can wear corrective lenses to compensate for colour blindness but electrical engineers cannot, despite the...
  • Research and Development
    1826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the ongoing research commissioned under the remit of his Department through the North-South Ministerial Council, Shared Island...
  • Budget 2024
    1827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of additional core funding that was allocated in Budget 2024 to the higher education sector. [57014/23]
  • Third Level Education
    1828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in line with Action 54 of the Final Report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Autism, if his Department has, or if he has plans to, liaise...
  • Departmental Data
    1832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with...
  • Grant Payments
    1833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the nature of documents previously accepted by SUSI as proof of estrangement or irreconcilable estrange of an applicant from their...
  • Technological Universities
    1834. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148 and 149 of 27 September 2023; and to confirm when they will...
  • Third Level Education
    1835. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in responding substantively to Parliamentary Question No. 871 of 11 July 2023; and to confirm when it will be...
  • Departmental Data
    1836. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff working on a full- and part-time basis, the number of posts in recruitment and number of vacant positions in each of the...
  • Technological Universities
    1837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to September 2021 when TU Dublin appointed ten new secretary/financial controller grade II positions, where eight of these were...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if TU Dublin will run the commis chef apprenticeship programme on TU Dublin’s Tallaght campus in the coming academic year. [57249/23]
  • Technological Universities
    1839. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 proposed consolidation and mergers of institutes of technology to...
  • Third Level Fees
    1843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if TU Dublin increased student fees for international students and part-time students without Governing Body approval; and if students were...
  • Technological Universities
    1844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the President of TU Dublin sought approval from the governing body for the proposed organisation design and were the consultants’...
  • Departmental Data
    1846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the HEA published student number data by mode of study full-time or part-time, the number of full-time students includes...
  • Technological Universities
    1847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in relation to the role of President of TU Dublin which was advertised on the basis of it being a seven-year appointment with the option for...
  • Third Level Education
    1850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in line with Action 88 of the Autism Committee’s Final Report, he has plans to ensure that understanding autism training is a...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices currently in the construction trades, broken down by trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1069/24]
  • Research and Development
    1854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to develop a research agreement with Taiwan, similar to that agreed by Lithuania; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Third Level Fees
    1855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) will be afforded the reduction in fees given to other students. [1274/24]
  • Departmental Data
    1856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the chairpersons of HEA-funded Irish higher education institutions; the terms of office of each; the number of terms served by each; and the...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action he is taking to provide the same level of financial support to apprentices undertaking construction metal fabrication and...
  • Budget 2024
    1858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the achievements to date with respect to making third level easier for medical graduates to succeed in Ireland following Budget 2024;...
  • Third Level Education
    1859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with an institute on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will clarify whether he and or his Department have...
  • Third Level Fees
    1860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures undertaken by his Department to assist students accessing graduate-entry medicine courses with the costs of fees; and if he will...
  • Student Accommodation
    1861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views in relation to student accommodation providers that are only offering year-long contracts; if he will consider intervention in the...
  • Apprenticeship Programmes
    1862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to his recent comments (details supplied) that he has “created all-island apprenticeships”, he can explain what this...
  • Technological Universities
    1863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the development of a 'borrowing framework' for technological universities and a timeline for this framework, given that...

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