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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: The student grant scheme has gradations to the income thresholds to further extend the coverage of eligibility for different grant values at the rates of 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% of maintenance grant. The Student Grant Scheme also provides for different levels of income thresholds where families have (i) less than 4 dependent children (ii) between 4 and 7 dependent children and (iii) 8 or more...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that there are various income thresholds used depending on the type of grant, family size etc. While SUSI has statistics on those students who have applied for grant support and can estimate with some degree of certainty, what impact changes to the thresholds might have for those students on lower income levels, the accuracy of its estimates become less reliable at...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that there are various income thresholds used depending on the type of grant, family size etc. While SUSI has statistics on those students who have applied for grant support and can estimate with some degree of certainty, what impact changes to the thresholds might have for those students on lower income levels, the accuracy of its estimates become less reliable at...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that there are various income thresholds used depending on the type of grant, family size etc. While SUSI has statistics on those students who have applied for grant support and can estimate with some degree of certainty, what impact changes to the thresholds might have for those students on lower income levels, the accuracy of its estimates become less reliable at...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: The estimated cost of increasing the maintenance grant by 10% is in the region of €16 Million. The Programme for Government contains commitments to, amongst other things, review SUSI eligibility criteria, adjacency rates and postgraduate grant supports. The review of the Student Grant Scheme is underway with over 250 submissions received via the public...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: Under my Department’s free fees schemes, the Exchequer provides funding toward the tuition fee costs of eligible full-time undergraduate students with students paying the student contribution fee. Combined maximum of €6,270. It is important to note in relation to this issue that under the Free Fees Schemes the Exchequer currently makes a very...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: The was a total of 74,755 SUSI grant recipients for the 2020/21 academic year. The number of recipients under each income bracket as requested by the Deputy is in the table attached. The Programme for Government contains commitments to, amongst other things, review SUSI eligibility criteria, adjacency rates and postgraduate grant supports. The review of the Student Grant Scheme is...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: With regard to building, equipment and ICT investment, the total capital investment in the higher education sector since 2016 has been €244m. This refers to funding provided by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science since its establishment in 2020 and, prior to that, by the Department of Education and Skills. For clarity, the above...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (24 Jun 2021)
Simon Harris: My Department has allocated €17m to support the provision of 3,486sqm of higher education facilities at the National Children’s Hospital. €10m of the funding allocated was drawn down by the Department of Health in 2019. The balance of funding is expected to be drawn down across 2021 and 2022. This allocation will support provision of facilities for...