Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will make the figures available to the House so the Deputy does not necessarily have to take them down. The correct figures for the numbers of students paid by SUSI as of last Friday, 18 January, are as follows: awarded to date, 30,658; provisionally awarded, 1,185; total paid grants, 19,743; total paid fee-only awards, 5,949; total overall paid by SUSI, 25,692; and awarded but still awaiting some form of payment, 3,781. Of that 3,871 still awaiting some form of payment, the vast majority of these students have not submitted their bank account details to SUSI.

SUSI is telephoning students proactively to get their banking details. I will arrange for this information to be placed in Members' post boxes later today.

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