946. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31792/25]
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947. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending the current fee contribution grants for eligible undergraduate part-time students to part-time post-graduate students. [31793/25]
948. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the Government will act on their commitment in the Programme for Government to provide subsidies for students pursuing graduate entry medicine in line with undergraduate medicine; the methods of financial support that will be developed; the timeline for reform; and if he will make a statement on the m…
949. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when his Department will implement a revised funding model for graduate entry medicine students, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32053/25]
950. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if new financial supports are being developed to assist graduate entry medicine students in meeting the cost of tuition, in light of the recent withdrawal of graduate medical loan products by commercial lenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32054/25]
951. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32107/25]
952. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of courses, along with their title and number of places available, that have been discontinued in each ETB, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32108/25]
953. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the total number of staff teaching craft apprenticeship off-the-job training (phases 2, 4 and 6), by ETB, in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32109/25]
954. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the breakdown of the funding provided to each ETB in the years 2023 and 2024; the level of funding requested by each ETB via the Funding Allocation Request (FAR) procedure; the actual funding provided; if in 2024 no such FAR was used and his Department allocated based on a different criteria, in tabular f…
955. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in relation to the additional funding of €67 million in Budget 2024 and €77 million in Budget 2025, where this additional funding was spent; the level of funding that has been drawn down in the current year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32111/25]
956. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department will subsidise graduate entry medicine in line with undergraduate medicine; if new financial support mechanisms are being developed for graduate entry medicine applicants; and the timeline for implementation of same. [32173/25]
957. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on the progress of the Government's strategy for third-level accommodation, and specifically, how this strategy addresses the needs of third-level institutions located in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32189/25]
958. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on efforts as part of the Global Ireland framework to streamline the recognition of overseas and non-EU qualifications in Ireland, particularly on-the-job qualifications.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32226/25]
959. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the commitment to introduce a tuition support scheme for graduate entry medicine; if he accepts the urgent need to deal with the financial costs facing students in light of the discontinuation of Bank of Ireland’s graduate entry medicine loan scheme; if he will ensure a financial support sol…
960. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will address concerns regarding the lack of supports for persons seeking to complete a part-time masters degree while employed; if there are any plans to increase supports in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32326/25]
961. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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 tabular form. [32336/25]
962. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of…
963. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for programme expenditure to improve a significant decline and to address the lack of consistency in the numbers of output targets for New Research Ireland-funded PhD positions from 310 in 2023 to 200 in 2024, with a slight increase of 220 in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter.…
964. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for programme expenditure to improve a significant decline and to address the lack of consistency in numbers of output targets for New Research Ireland-funded postdoctoral researchers funded by Research Ireland per annum from 309 in 2023 to 250 in 2024; the reason there is a slight increase of …
965. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for programme expenditure to address the numbers of invention disclosures from higher education institutes; the reasons there is a significant decrease from 486 in 2021, 400 in 2022 and 361 in 2023; to details of this for 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the ma…
966. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason there is still only an output target of just one female research professor since 2023 under his Department’s equality budgeting indicator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32535/25]
967. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the measures being taken to address the significant decrease in FET learners from underrepresented backgrounds from 23,763 in 2023 to 19,474 in 2024; the reason there was a slight increase of 19,500 in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32536/25]
968. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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 €25,231 in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32537/25]
969. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will be capping the current grants to Solas for further education and training, to the welcome increase from €537,474 to €589, 221 in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32539/25]
970. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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 output target of 82,800 to the slightly increased output target of 84,000 in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32540/25]