Third Level Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 November 2012

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Questions (294, 295)

Charlie McConalogue

Question:

294. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the per student funding formula or ratio used to calculate the Higher Education Authority grant provided to each HEA funded institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49954/12]

Charlie McConalogue

Question:

295. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the Higher Education Authority block grant provided to each HEA funded institution for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49955/12]

Written answers

Minister for Education and Skills

I propose to take Questions Nos. 294 and 295 together.

My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA institutions. The HEA allocates this grant to institutions for free fees and core grant funding and other specific earmarked initiatives. Institutions receive a grant in lieu of tuition fees for full time eligible EU students - based of certified returns from the institutions.

The HEA uses a Recurrent Grant Allocation Model (RGAM) to determine the amount of core funding (grant) provided to each University/Institute of Technology. Core funding is allocated on a formulae basis using this model and the general principle is that core funding allocations should be fair, simple, transparent and applied consistently across HEI's. Core funding allocated through the RGAM is based on price group-weighted student numbers. These include full-time and part-time, undergraduate and postgraduate students. Student numbers are weighted to reflect different subject areas as different subject areas have different costs. Some access and research metrics are also used. Institutions are ultimately allocated a block grant, and the internal allocation of same is a matter for each institution as an autonomous body.

Details of the recurrent grant allocated to each HEA institution by the HEA is set out in the table.

Institutes of Technology

2008-2012* Grant and Free Fees allocations

Institution	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Athlone IT	28,649,272	26,827,584	24,191,056	22,182,199	21,106,174
IT Blanchardstown	13,891,472	13,040,061	12,096,694	11,712,019	11,256,126
IT Carlow	25,452,798	23,321,324	21,911,297	21,004,368	19,735,742
Cork IT	64,684,165	60,784,677	56,000,106	51,510,926	50,403,471
DIT	136,937,941	128,311,581	112,948,262	102,985,058	92,683,852
Dundalk IT	27,567,980	25,789,259	24,745,486	22,414,932	21,829,872
Dun Laoghaire IADT	15,492,900	14,492,391	14,338,842	12,730,516	11,493,322
Galway-Mayo IT	44,176,332	41,442,909	36,353,596	33,707,763	30,694,081
Letterkenny IT	22,688,679	21,254,947	19,408,821	17,443,609	14,968,611
Limerick IT**	32,020,402	29,993,583	27,255,675	28,922,591	32,450,946
IT Sligo	30,362,356	28,358,663	25,932,540	24,372,824	22,269,138
IT Tallaght	25,185,375	23,666,534	21,119,999	20,105,938	18,397,757
IT Tralee	23,293,615	21,882,526	20,017,410	18,117,521	15,824,606
Waterford IT	50,170,645	46,937,467	41,569,336	40,067,418	36,799,828
Totals	540,573,930	506,103,505	457,889,121	427,277,682	399,913,527

*Please note that the 2012 allocations are not final

** Limerick IT data for 2012 and 2011 includes allocations for Tipperary Institute

Universities and Other Colleges

2008-2012* Grant and Free Fees allocations

	2012*	2011	2010	2009	2008
UCD	€121,731,537	€140,918,644	€152,618,765	€175,580,384	€186,406,034
UCC	€91,393,200	€107,676,193	€116,020,076	€126,788,998	€138,329,285
NUIG	€83,591,545	€92,285,923	€97,234,154	€106,244,631	€110,008,782
NUIM	€41,849,275	€47,203,686	€48,811,330	€52,243,097	€54,205,871
TCD	€91,296,815	€101,722,432	€111,946,152	€128,147,720	€134,635,916
UL	€65,043,542	€69,141,761	€74,734,542	€82,046,156	€82,197,708
DCU (including Oscail)	€43,249,282	€45,544,108	€51,393,803	€53,712,276	€59,060,434
MIC	€16,301,523	€18,025,496	€19,556,053	€20,103,411	€21,315,416
SPD (including ERC)	€14,472,764	€15,925,591	€18,128,638	€18,635,585	€20,536,933
NCAD	€9,681,654	€11,405,067	€11,643,724	€12,753,171	€13,815,578
Mater Dei	€2,867,027	€3,182,001	€3,435,372	€3,547,046	€3,912,471
St. Angela's	€4,255,014	€4,576,815	€4,927,149	€5,409,591	€4,824,272
RCSI	€4,717,276	€5,680,086	€4,215,098	€4,766,230	€3,567,171
RIA	€3,108,500	€3,285,500	€3,525,500	€3,890,500	€3,911,223
NUI	€12,697	€12,697	€12,697	€12,697	€112,697
Total	€593,571,651	€666,586,000	€718,203,053	€793,881,493	€836,739,790

* Not all grants allocated yet .

Note:

These tables show the block grant (grant and fees) allocated to the HEA institutions. Please note that the figures exclude Nursing, which was transferred to the HEA from the Department of Health in 2011 (grants to relevant institutions totalled €55.8m in 2011 and €53.1m in 2012) and Springboard (grants totalled c.€3.9m in 2011 and c.€1.5m to date 2012). The tables also exclude sectoral initiatives (eg. HEAnet, An Cheim, e-journals etc).