€1,734,555 was disbursed to Maynooth University (MU) in July 2022 under the Devolved Grant 2022/2023. This funding issued to the higher education sector allows eligible HEIs, including MU, the flexibility to advance minor capital works (including health and safety works, access works, refurbishment and energy upgrades) and equipment purchase or renewal, including ICT. It is the responsibility of individual HEI to prioritise the works against which the funding will be deployed.
No capital funding has been issued to date in 2023 to the institution in question.
The Technology, Society & Innovation Building, part of the Arts and Science Cluster, which forms part of a wider plan to modernise and expand the Arts and Science buildings on the Maynooth University campus was officially opened by the then Taoiseach on the 1st September 2022. Funding of €25m was provided under the Higher Education Strategic Infrastructure Fund (HESIF 1) to co-fund the project and the funding in question was drawn down between 2019 and 2021.
MU was among eight higher education institutions approved in 2020 to progress projects under the Energy Efficiency and Decarbonisation Pathfinder Programme 2020 co-funded with SEAI. The project is complete and is in the energy monitoring phase.
