David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the core State funding awarded to Waterford Institute of Technology in each of the years 2007 to 2016 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38726/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My Department allocates the total recurrent funding allocation to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions (HEIs) including the Universities and Institutes of Technology. The HEA allocates the funding (block grant funding) to institutions and it is then a matter for the individual institution as to how that funding is allocated internally. The HEA allocates the available funding based on a Recurrent Grant Allocation Model which is driven primarily by student numbers weighted by the relative costs of providing education in different disciplines with additional performance mechanisms built in to reflect outcomes such as those relating to access, skills-based provision and research.

The following table details the recurrent grant funding issued to WIT for the years 2007 to 2016.