Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Irish Independent reported on 23 July 2012 that in some instances, the Department of Education and Skills had to step in with funding so that workers accessing funding could finish third level courses they had started and that spanned longer than the two years covered by the fund. Somebody might have had funding for part but not all of a course. Obviously, this leaves people in a situation where they are effectively left out of funding. Why were workers approved for funding for courses that spanned longer timeframes than the amount of funding they were provided with?