Written answers
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Data
1395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on timelines, budgets and the terms of reference for a review of disability issues across further and higher... - Further and Higher Education
1397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the progress made on Colleges of the Future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47618/25] - Apprenticeship Programmes
1399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline any plans for new apprenticeships; when will they be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47620/25] - Departmental Funding
1402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the funding issues for SOLAS and ETBs, and any delays in apprenticeships or cuts to courses or staff across all aspects of the... - Adult Education Provision
1403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on any plans to deal with issues being faced by adult educators across the ETB sector; and if he will make a statement on the... - Public Procurement Contracts
1404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the web links to his Department’s Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 published reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders... - Departmental Data
1406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places currently available in veterinary medicine in each institution across the country; if he intends to make more spaces... - Departmental Funding
1407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether funding has been allocated by his Department, or by bodies under its aegis, for research on new treatments for triple negative breast... - Departmental Inquiries
1408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will urgently review the case of a Leaving Certificate student (details supplied); if flexibility or discretionary measures can be applied... - Third Level Education
1409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the next phase of the development of the College of the Future project at the Kickham Barracks site in Clonmel, which was given... - International Students
1410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if accommodations will be made to support international students studying third-level courses in Ireland who have to deal with unforeseen and... - Departmental Data
1411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pipe fitting apprentices who registered their four-year apprenticeship in 2021; and the number that have completed their course,... - Capital Expenditure Programme
1412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nature of capital works projects funded either by his Department and or SOLAS at an education centre (details supplied) in 2023, 2024 and to... - Departmental Data
1413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students ordinarily resident in the State who enrolled in third-level education institutions; the number of international students... - Third Level Fees
1414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider retaining the €1,000 college-fee reduction introduced as part of the cost-of-living measures, in light of the ongoing... - Departmental Programmes
1415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department have in place to promote the DiscoverEU travel programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48373/25] - Departmental Data
1416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average time it took from phase 1 to completion of each apprenticeship, by trade in County Tipperary in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular... - Departmental Legal Cases
1417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the involvement he or his Department had in reaching a settlement with the former director of an agency (details supplied); the cost to the... - Departmental Strategies
1418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to expand the skilled workforce required to meet the Government’s annual housing delivery target of 50,000 homes;... - Departmental Funding
1419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding for non-apprenticeship training will be released to ETBs from the National Training Fund; and if he will make a statement on the... - Technological Universities
1420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for funding to be made available to the Technological University Dublin to develop its campus at Broombridge; and if he will make... - Statutory Instruments
1421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all Statutory Instruments signed by him in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48678/25] - Student Accommodation
1422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeline for the delivery of the DCU student accommodation project for the promised funding of 405-beds, which is currently... - Education Standards
1423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department announced and made public to the schools or student population in the North the recommended equitable CAO points conversion... - Third Level Fees
1425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the abolition of third-level fees and apprentice contributions as a means to reduce financial pressures on students, in view... - Education Schemes
1426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports in place for students who travelled recently from Gaza; the fees that they must pay; and if he will make a statement on... - Education and Training Provision
1427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students studying graduate education medicine by institution for each year from 2015-2016 to 2024-2025; if statistics on... - Education Costs
1428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full economic cost of the graduate education medicine programme; the fees charged to students; the financial supports available to those... - Capital Expenditure Programme
1429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a building project (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48934/25] - Education Costs
1430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students and their families are expected to pay the full student contribution charge if they are on an internship year, and not... - Education and Training Provision
1431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to supporting and funding further QQI-certified training programmes specifically designed for members of the deaf... - Education Schemes
1432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing measures to help families with more than one child going to college in terms of the fees. [49222/25]
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