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Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Brian Hayes: ...1996 or holds subsidiary protection pursuant to the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations 2006 meets the nationality requirement. In addition, a person who holds a prescribed immigration status as provided for in the Student Support Regulations 2013 may also meet the nationality requirement. These include permission to remain as the family member of an EU, EEA or...

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: ...the Minister of State said, but they are not getting them. That category should be made quite clear on the student grants scheme website. It should be clarified with regard to the nationality and immigration status of students that they would be entitled to a grant based on what the Minister of State has told us this afternoon.

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Brian Hayes: ...a young person goes into the system and in the course of their studies their parent becomes naturalised, they apply either for naturalisation themselves or for leave to remain, which is the normal immigration standard. According to my notes, where a student's leave to remain in the State is determined by reference to the conditions attached to their parents' initial permission to reside,...

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)

Anthony Lawlor: ...giving me the chance to raise this issue. Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, has been working well in this, its second year. There have not been too many problems. However, nationality and immigration status pose an anomaly in terms of selecting people for grants. The case I am highlighting arose in 2012 and involves a child who is not an Irish citizen, but one of whose parents...