Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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1711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount higher education institutions (details supplied) spent on their graduation ceremonies; the number of students that graduated in each of the years 2017 to 2024, for TUD and MTU; and the amount spent on graduations by DIT and CIT prior to the establishment of TUD and MTU, respectively, in tabular form. [1437/25]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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I thank Deputy Murphy for his questions which I will address separately as below:

1. Graduation Costs: With regard to the matter of the cost of graduation ceremonies, our universities and technological universities are autonomous institutions as provided for in the Universities Act 1997. Therefore the management of their day to day functions, including the management of graduation ceremonies, are matters for the individual institution which would be overseen by appropriate institutional governance arrangements and associated policies. As such, neither I nor my Department have any role in the management of graduation ceremonies and therefore do not have information on this matter.

2. Graduation Numbers: With regard to graduate numbers for TU Dublin and Munster Technological University, this information is provided below in tabular form, as collected by the Higher Education Association. 2023 is the most recent year for which information is currently available.