Departmental Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 July 2022

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Questions (215)

Rose Conway-Walsh

Question:

215. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of PhD positions funded by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department; the average stipend or salary paid to full-time PhD candidates through these funding streams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35434/22]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Deputy Darragh O'Brien)

Met Éireann, is a line division of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and, under its Weather and Climate Research Programme, funds full time Ph.D. positions through various instruments. Funding is in part given to cover the Ph.D. student’s stipend, which currently is at a flat rate of €18,500 per annum for up to four years, as per all Irish research funding organisations’ guidelines.

Met Éireann currently funds 3 Ph.D. positions directly (1× fully Met Éireann funded IRC-Government of Ireland Postgraduate Ph.D., 1× fully Met Éireann funded Research Call 2021 Ph.D. and 1× half Met Éireann funded Teagasc Walsh Scholarship Ph.D.) and contributes to the funding of a cohort of 130+ SFI Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science Ph.Ds.

My Department does not hold the requested information in respect of the State Bodies under its aegis.  Arrangements have been made that these State Bodies may be contacted directly by e-mail by members of the Oireachtas, as set out in the table below.

State Body	Contact E-mails
An Bord Pleanála	[e-mail]
An Fóram Uisce (the Water Forum)	[e-mail]
Approved Housing   Bodies Regulatory Authority	[e-mail]
Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum	[e-mail]
Ervia	[e-mail]
Gas Networks Ireland	[e-mail]
Heritage Council	[e-mail]
Housing Finance Agency	[e-mail]
Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency	[e-mail]
Irish Water	[e-mail]
Land Development Agency	[e-mail]
Local  Government Management Agency	[e-mail]
National Oversight and Audit Commission	[e-mail]
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee	[e-mail]
Office of the Planning Regulator	[e-mail]
Ordnance Survey Ireland	[e-mail]
Property Registration Authority	[e-mail]
Pyrite Resolution Board	[e-mail]
Residential Tenancies Board	[e-mail]
Valuation Office	[e-mail]
Water Advisory Body	[e-mail]
Waterways Ireland	[e-mail]