Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Aed?n Doris:

On SUSI, I agree about the adequacy levels. I do not have any particular insights into the mechanisms it should use to reform those, but they do need to be aligned carefully with the real-world experience of what it costs to go to college, and to be able to do that while not working. There are many courses where it is just not possible to work when undertaking a course. That should be perfectly possible.