Ms Alisha Houlihan:

I thank my colleagues for their contributions. The committee has heard examples of genuine stories and members must see that we are not the so-called privileged kids. There are many more examples that we could give. We have learned from our research that there are no more than 200 students who are eligible for SUSI grants but attend the three colleges, namely Dublin Business School, Griffith College in Dublin, Cork and Limerick and the Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences in Limerick. As far as we know this is the total number of institutions that are impacted by this inequity. I thank the Chairman again for the invitation to attend.