Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Sheena Duffy:
I echo what my colleagues said. We have seen that there is interest. Even looking at the North-South research projects, we had 367 eligible applications but funding was available for only 62 of those. The interest is there. If we could find some additional funding, we could certainly put together joint programmes. At present, under the Erasmus scheme, we cannot send students to Northern Ireland without it being quite expensive. I look forward to the proposal within the international strategy for mobility programme. These things have to be two way. We cannot just have flows going one way.