Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Education and Skills
- Grant Payments
945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at third level; and if he will make a... - Further and Higher Education
949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will implement a revised funding model for graduate entry medicine students, as committed to in the Programme for Government;... - Departmental Data
951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current offering by ETB of craft apprenticeship off-the-job training (phases 2, 4 and 6), by the number of places per intake, for 2023, 2024... - Departmental Funding
956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will subsidise graduate entry medicine in line with undergraduate medicine; if new financial support mechanisms are being... - Student Accommodation
957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of the Government's strategy for third-level accommodation, and specifically, how this strategy addresses... - Qualifications Recognition
958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on efforts as part of the Global Ireland framework to streamline the recognition of overseas and non-EU qualifications in Ireland,... - Departmental Inquiries
960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns regarding the lack of supports for persons seeking to complete a part-time masters degree while employed; if there... - Departmental Data
961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital and current funding his Department and SOLAS provided to a service (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in... - Departmental Websites
962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example,... - Departmental Expenditure
963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for programme expenditure to improve a significant decline and to address the lack of consistency in the numbers of output targets for... - Further and Higher Education
965. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for programme expenditure to address the numbers of invention disclosures from higher education institutes; the reasons there is a... - Gender Balance
966. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is still only an output target of just one female research professor since 2023 under his Department’s equality budgeting... - Departmental Inquiries
967. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to address the significant decrease in FET learners from underrepresented backgrounds from 23,763 in 2023 to 19,474 in... - Departmental Funding
968. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be capping the current Solas admin, capital and general expenses to the welcome increase of €30,164 in 2025 from the previous... - Grant Payments
969. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be capping the current grants to Solas for further education and training, to the welcome increase from €537,474 to... - Further and Higher Education
970. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is no consistency in numbers from his Department of Skillnet Ireland learners from the 2023 outturn target of 96,646 to the 2024... - Departmental Inquiries
971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department’s programme expenditure has decided to decrease the outrun target numbers of places for Skillnet Ireland... - Departmental Data
973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for detailed information on the six further education building projects marked as output targets for 2025; the reason there were no building... - Departmental Funding
977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be an increase of funding from the National Training Fund for training grants to industry from the current amount of €6,500... - Departmental Inquiries
980. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department intends to cap the welcome increase in funding of public private partnership costs from €39,000 (NTF) in 2024 to... - Departmental Data
982. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans his Department has to build on and expand the numbers of higher education students in the State, with the last figure from 2023 is at... - Departmental Budgets
986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has significantly reduced digital and capital investment and IT expenses from his programme allocations budget by 80%... - Departmental Contracts
987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs incurred by his Department and bodies under its aegis from contracts awarded to communications and PR firms in 2024; the name of the... - International Students
988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to encourage greater participation by Peruvian students in third level institutions and continuing educational opportunities in... - Grant Payments
989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an applicant (details supplied) will be considered for SUSI assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32706/25] - Artificial Intelligence
990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which he is pursuing the ‘CERN for AI’ proposal (details supplied); if he sees opportunity in State-led AI... - Judicial Reviews
991. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of judicial review cases his Department has defended in each of the past ten years; the number in relation to which proceedings are...
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