Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There was not a massive amount of change in the SUSI grants in the budget. Some of the thresholds changed.

I asked the Minister how many students that would impact. He said about 3,000. If I am not mistaken, there are 15,000 in Galway alone, so it is impacting a very small number of people. Has USI noticed more and more that while people might think at the start that they are able to go to college, due to the costs, it ends up that they cannot?