Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am conscious of one student whose application has just come through today and the same is true in respect of other branches. Students have almost completed their first year the second time around, therefore, and their grants are only just coming through. Is there anything else we could do within SUSI to assist students, aside from making repeating easier? Perhaps we could look at different thresholds if a student has a diagnosis. Is that something Ms Tonge would favour or would it cause a divide between students?