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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: There is nothing in the Supplementary Estimate on that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is part of the technical issue for the Comptroller and Auditor General. It is part of the 2013-2014 issue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: No, it relates to the issue about 2013-2014.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is the issue we have just discussed around retirement.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is the same issue again.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is the same issue again.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is on student grants. We had a shortfall in funding for student grants but found we were able to use money that was saved elsewhere.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: No. It does not involve the €103 million. It does not involve the Supplementary Estimate.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: There was just a moving around within the Department.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is routine.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It balances in the end. What happened was that there were more SUSI grants than had been anticipated at the beginning of the year. The funding was found through savings in other areas.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: No. It was money that was genuinely not required.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It is also subject to the approval of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is to ensure there is adequate money for various subheads. In this case, it was for student grants. It is not that we took money from anything else.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: No.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: In all these things, there has to be a cut-off point somewhere. There will always be someone on the wrong side of the cut-off point unfortunately. As public representatives, we all know of situations where somebody is unfortunately on the other side. These issues can always be reviewed and they will always be under consideration in terms of whether one needs changes in the system. While...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: The appeals board is independent and it operates in that way on the basis of the guidelines that are there within the scheme. As with anything else, there are specific cut-off points as the Deputy knows.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: I know what the question is, but when one has an independent appeals board, one has to trust it to make the decision. What I might consider to be a tough case, the Deputy might not. That is why we have an independent appeals board.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: It might be a matter for another discussion with the committee. Today, we are discussing the Supplementary Estimates.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: None of the officials with me today deals specifically with SUSI grants from a policy perspective. I think the Chairman was here before when someone raised the issue of mature students and independence from the family. We can have a look at it again with the committee.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Jan O'Sullivan: There is legislation in place and SUSI is obviously bound by it.