Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No. I needed to clarify that, given my previous comments about SUSI. They will get the SUSI level of support through the Erasmus+ agreement that we have reached at European level.

The Acting Chair and Deputy Ó Cathasaigh raised an issue about research. We are in receipt of a proposal from a university working with the Irish Research Council, IRC, and Scholars at Risk for funding to support displaced Ukrainian researchers, but we are awaiting further developments from the European Commission on the operation of the additional funding. The IUA is the contact point for the scheme. It will form part of the brief for the NSR help desk, which will then become the contact point. In another good European initiative, there are specific bursaries for researchers from Ukraine. I will send the committee a note on that.