Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated average public cost of training a primary teacher and a post-primary teacher to full qualification, including teacher education programme funding, teaching practice costs, and capitation grants to colleges of education, for each year since 2000 to date in 2025. [61191/25]

James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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Higher Education Institutions are autonomous institutions responsible for their own academic affairs including the development of relevant curriculum and student numbers on individual courses.

Institutions receive funding from a variety of sources, including state grants, competitive funding, tuition fees, and commercial/private income streams. Their various income streams contribute to the expenditure associated with the full range of institutional activities. Meeting the costs of provision is a matter for the respective institution within the context of its overall operating budget.

In relation to recurrent funding supports, the provision of higher education funding from the State, on an annual basis, is part of overall expenditure management and budgetary policy of Government. Financial support is provided to the higher education sector through a variety of means including direct recurrent grants.

Investment in Higher Education is not specifically allocated against a “per student” metric. As such is it not possible to attribute a specific cost for the training of specific student cohorts such as training for primary teaching.

The internal disbursement of the grant funding, including allocations across faculties or schools within an institution, is a matter for the institution to determine.