Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills
1:20 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Certainly, at least one third of the students are being refused where decisions are completed. Either way, even if it is 32,000 or 33,000, and 16,000 have been refused, definitely, one third of all applications are being refused.
Perhaps that is correct, that they do not pass the means test. We understand that. It seems a high figure, that there is one third of all applicants being refused. Would that have been the norm, before SUSI was set up, in the other grant awarding authorities?
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