Questions

158. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department has plans to amend SUSI criteria in relation to family estrangement to ensure greater access to SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6843/26]

1063. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason TrustEd applications were invited and processed before final PEL requirements were published and costed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4429/26]

1064. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when full PEL details will be published; if he will provide the details of the cost structure for schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4430/26]

1065. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if further TrustEd rounds will be paused until all remaining regulatory elements are fully finalised and transparent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4431/26]

1066. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way in which ongoing TrustEd staffing ratios will be verified between inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4507/26]

1067. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if TrustEd includes restrictions or checks on employing Stamp 2 English-language students as teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4510/26]

1068. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the checks that exist to ensure ELT schools employ suitably qualified staff and do not rely on student-visa holders to undercut wages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4511/26]

1172. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount his Department has spent on translation services from a company (details supplied) for the years 2020 to 2025 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72069/25]

627. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department, and agencies under the Department’s remit, purchase data on the habits and activities of social media users and other platforms; if so, the reasons for purchasing such data; the amount spent in 2024 and 2025 year to date on such expenditure, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement…

709. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if an Irish citizen living outside the State returning home to attend the leaving certificate cycle, can avail of the rate of student fees of an Irish resident for third level education; the requirements which must be met to avail of these fees and not international fees; and if he will make a statement on t…

1136. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if any universities in Ireland have or currently receive funding from China and/or have been persuaded not to study certain subjects or topics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61291/25]

884. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount that has been spent by his Department to conduct tendering processes for public infrastructure projects in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56694/25]

2. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when he expects specific capital funding to be allocated and announced to establish a new constituent campus in Wexford town for the Southeast Technological University; when the masterplan for the site will be published; when he expects SETU to have access to the new site and construction work on the new campu…

26. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he plans to provide further and higher education counselling through his Department for young adults seeking to progress into further education, outside of the current structures provided through third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56055/25]

36. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the engagements he has had with a union (details supplied) representing apprentices since becoming Minister in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56052/25]

45. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the actions that have been taken by him since 2024 to protect apprenticeships in Ireland due to the over-reliance on employer stability leaving the system vulnerable to fluctuations in the labour market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56054/25]

50. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the engagement he has had with the Residential Tenancies Board with regard to the student housing crisis since becoming Minister in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56053/25]

61. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the engagements he has had with an organisation (details supplied) since August 2025 with regard to Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56051/25]

1417. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the involvement he or his Department had in reaching a settlement with the former director of an agency (details supplied); the cost to the Exchequer, inclusive of the settlement, legal fees and other costs associated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48530/25]

3309. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated income, expenditure and surplus in the national training fund for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44078/25]

3310. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a report on national training fund spending, and its impact on training and education provision, will be published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44079/25]

3311. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science how the national training fund's investment in higher education will be used to implement the funding the future strategy; how the €50 million allocated from the NTF for higher education core funding in 2025 has been invested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44080/25]

3312. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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. [44388/25]

3313. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason adult education teachers are being told there is no role or guarantee of hours for the coming academic year, while positions are being advertised for new recruits, and while Government is increasing funding to the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40716/25]

3330. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware that apprentices in metal fabrication in construction and engineering are being paid at different rates with regard to training allowance rates in phases of their training, despite carrying out the same training in the same environments; if so, if he plans to take steps to remedy this dispari…