• Public Sector Pensions
  3307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the business case submitted by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science...
• Education and Training Provision
  3308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the quality controls in place regarding the training provided by a company (details supplied) for special needs assistants or SNAs; and if he...
• Student Accommodation
  3312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of private-owned and publicly-owned student accommodation in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
• Education and Training Provision
  3313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason adult education teachers are being told there is no role or guarantee of hours for the coming academic year, while positions are...
• Pilot Training Courses
  3314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 1 July, to provide an update on his engagements with the City of Dublin ETB; and if he will make...
• Research and Development
  3315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of companies, and from what sector, collaborating with Research Ireland's activities or other State supported research initiatives in...
• Cúrsaí Gaeilge
  3316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na pleananna atá aige maidir le cúrsaí Gaeilge tríú leibhéal nua a chur ar fáil chun a chinntiú...
• Departmental Legal Services
  3317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend by his Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which...
• Education and Training Boards
  3318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the status of adult literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages, ESOL, tutors employed by ETBs, many of whom have...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  3319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by his Department and agencies...
• Further and Higher Education
  3320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the exclusion of Marino Institute of Education from core Higher Education Authority funding streams, given its role in teacher...
• Departmental Priorities
  3323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the Killarney Innovation Centre providing spaces for emerging tech enterprises, how his Department is supporting the...
• Grant Payments
  3325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total number of grant payments issued by the Department in each of the past five years, along with the total value of those grant...
• Technological Universities
  3328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether technical universities, and specifically, TUS Clonmel IT, receive funding to build student accommodation; and if he will make a...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans for a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41303/25]
• Northern Ireland
  3331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the poor CAO points conversion rates for A-level students in Northern Ireland to have a fairer opportunity to access...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a 23-year-old apprentice (details supplied) in his first year of a plumbing apprenticeship in Galway getting paid €7.50 per hour can...
• Further and Higher Education
  3335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for information about the working group established in response to the Programme for Government commitment to advance the research...
• Education and Training Provision
  3336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills despite an increased investment in SOLAS for the FET sector of 37% since 2020 and with an allocation of over €1 billion in 2025, the...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  3338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all external legal fees incurred by his Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; how fees...
• Departmental Legal Services
  3339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and barristers,...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  3341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or summaries of...
• Departmental Legal Services
  3342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the internal oversight that exists within his Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal services once engaged; and...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  3343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department makes use of capped fee arrangements, fixed-fee briefs, success-based fee models or other such arrangements in its legal...
• International Protection
  3345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline whether English language lessons are available to every person seeking international protection; whether it is mandatory in any...
• Further and Higher Education
  3346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons that the undergraduate psychology degree programme (PC414) at Carlow College is not currently included in the Free Fees Initiative...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a nationwide breakdown of all craft apprenticeships, with details on the number of students began their apprenticeships in each category in...
• Medical Qualifications
  3358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has reduced the points on the health professions admission test required for studying medicine (HPAT) from 300 to 150...
• Technological Universities
  3359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no capital funding was allocated in 2025 for the Technological University of the Shannon compared with the previous year when there...
• Departmental Contracts
  3363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a company (details supplied) had a contract with his Department in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025; and if so, the nature of the...
• Education Policy
  3364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has to advance education, training and maintenance of new digital skills, particularly STEM subjects, to assist girls; and if he...
• Gender Equality
  3365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work his Department has carried out on the review of the gender equality action plan for higher education referenced in the programme for...
• Ministerial Communications
  3366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he uses personal emails for his Government business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42174/25]
• Education Policy
  3368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will take to ensure that staff working in adult education are not reliant on social welfare during the summer months; the...
• Student Visas
  3369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade...
• Departmental Data
  3370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students studying English language courses in the State in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
• Education Policy
  3374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is responsible for education for people over the age of 65 years, given that lifelong learning is defined as learning up to...
• Education Costs
  3375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need to create a student finance model that will provide interest-free loans to students that do not qualify for SUSI grants to...
• Departmental Expenditure
  3377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in...
• Programme for Government
  3378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress made in creating a website to give students comprehensive information on third level pathways, as committed to in the...
• Departmental Projects
  3379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the progress made in creating an online career guidance and information portal. [42605/25]
• Departmental Data
  3381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report the total number of students registered in higher education institutions each year for the past five years. [42607/25]
• Student Accommodation
  3382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress made in carrying out the second stage of the technological sector student accommodation programme. [42608/25]
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report the amount of funding allocated in the National Training Fund to provide craft apprenticeships to fill reported gaps in the...
• Education and Training Provision
  3384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that an education and training board has capped the number of places available for specialist training (details supplied)...
• Departmental Funding
  3386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital works projects within his Department that were funded by the EU in the years of 2024 and to-date in 2025; and the amount of funding...
• Youth Work Projects
  3387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Youthreach centres in Dublin; and the number of students attending each of those centres, in tabular form. [42804/25]
• Departmental Meetings
  3388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the bilateral meetings he has had with his EU counterparts since his appointment, in tabular form. [42805/25]
• Departmental Contracts
  3389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department, or any agency operating under its aegis, has in the past five years used reserved contracts or included social clauses...
• Grant Payments
  3390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it can be ensured that a person (details supplied) receives the SUSI grant in time to return to Trinity College Dublin. [42987/25]
• Research Funding
  3392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the breakdown of the funding for the future funding of €23.6 million announced at the beginning of the year to fund...
• Departmental Funding
  3394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the breakdown of funding of €600m as announced in June 2025 as part of the amendment of the National Training Fund...
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the apprenticeship budget of €54.2m which was allocated from 2021 to 2023 to SOLAS and the Higher Education...
• Irish Language
  3397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of his Department’s annual funding of €900,000 to support the expansion of the Irish language by students...
• Grant Payments
  3399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to extend the SUSI grant system for postgraduate fee contribution of €5,000 for qualifying students for the upcoming academic...
• Education Costs
  3400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants or supports available to students completing their third level college course in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Departmental Reports
  3401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the one legacy action due as outlined in the Q1 2025 progress report (details supplied); to outline which actions they...
• Youth Services
  3402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the important work done by teachers and staff in Youthreach facilities, if there have been any discussions regarding the alignment of the...
• Departmental Funding
  3403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the capital funding programmes or grants which his Department or any body under his aegis has responsibility, for which sporting...
• Education Policy
  3406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on timelines, budgets and the terms of reference for a review of disability issues across further and higher education...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  3407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for capital investment in further and higher education facilities in Louth over the next number of years, in tabular form; and if he...
• Further and Higher Education
  3408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in colleges of the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43465/25]
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for new apprenticeships and the timeframe to have them up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43467/25]
• Adult Education Provision
  3414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans to deal with issues being faced by adult educators across the ETB sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Grant Payments
  3415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the same income eligibility limits for SUSI grants are applicable for students attending recognised courses in colleges...
• Departmental Staff
  3416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of full-time equivalents directly employed by his Department, broken down by grade, in tabular form. [43661/25]
• Information and Communications Technology
  3417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department has a policy or goal of better insourcing of IT requirements and needs of the Department for better cybersecurity,...
• Departmental Funding
  3418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special educational accommodations, such as rest facilities, flexible scheduling or assisted learning support that have been implemented in...
• Third Level Fees
  3419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an opportunity, or any avenue, whereby a third level student can receive fee support to repeat a year, where the student suffered a...
• Education and Training Provision
  3420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any progress in expanding the number of dental college places offered to students in University College Cork and Trinity...
• Departmental Funding
  3423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding set aside for the North South Research Fund; the number of applicants and the awards given to successful applicants, in 2025 and in...
• Departmental Schemes
  3424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Skillnet SME incentivisation scheme will be launched; and the reason for the delay in launching the scheme; and if he will make a...
• International Students
  3426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide detailed information on the acceptance criteria, processes for assessment and any other pertinent information of the Government of...
• Education and Training Provision
  3427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year costs of doubling the number of third level places available for therapeutic courses (details supplied). [44354/25]
• Third Level Fees
  3428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the student contribution fee for September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44363/25]
• Apprenticeship Programmes
  3429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship courses which have been cancelled this year broken down by ETB. [44432/25]

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