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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...may now be disregarded for the purposes of social welfare eligibility and also when calculating the qualifying financial threshold for medical cards and when examining reckonable income for support under the SUSI grant scheme. In addition work is ongoing with the DHLGH to facilitate Local Authority tenants to access the scheme. This summer, I launched a national media campaign to promote...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Gary Gannon: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for the number of complaints submitted concerning the SUSI application process this year by students or parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40449/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Sep 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans, if any, he has in relation to changes to the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...the scheme may now be disregarded for the purposes of social welfare eligibility and also when calculating the qualifying financial threshold for medical cards and when examining reckonable income for support under the SUSI grant scheme. In addition work is ongoing with the DHLGH to facilitate Local Authority tenants to access the scheme. This summer, I launched a national media campaign...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Danny Healy-Rae: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a change to the SUSI guidelines that presently penalises students who continue to work part-time outside of holidays, putting them over the threshold for the SUSI grant. [40914/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

James Lawless: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a matter with a SUSI grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40846/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Simon Harris: ..., residency, previous academic attainment and means. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for the centralised student grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) to determine. Students attending approved undergraduate courses in the EU can apply for a maintenance grant provided they meet the terms and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (21 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which income qualification thresholds might be updated in respect of student SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40933/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Mr. Ciar?n Nugent: To add to that, the level of pay at apprentice level for a school leaver who is 16 to 18 years of age is an issue. I am not advocating that the SUSI grant be taken from working-class households, but there is a big gap between those grants and apprentice pay. People compare getting the SUSI grant to having to work for many hours and get up at 5 a.m. to work in an industry...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...including being in receipt of a qualifying payment for a specified time, which is 3 months for further level courses and 9 months for higher level courses. The Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) grant, payable by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research and Science, is the primary support for people pursuing further and higher education. This grant offers funding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Howlin: 1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will facilitate an appeal in relation to the awarding of a SUSI grant to a person (details supplied) who, due to their being abroad during the allowed appeal period, in line with Teaching Council requirements, has been unable to forward an appeal under the statutory provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39486/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Bernard Durkan: 1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI will be encouraged to reconsider the refusal of a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39576/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: 1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether any essential expenditure from an inheritance, such as the purchase of a car to travel to college, can be included in a SUSI means assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39608/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 1061. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a lower threshold for SUSI qualification in respect of applicants from households in receipt of a widow's pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39721/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Paul Kehoe: 1081. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration can be given to the case of a person (details supplied) in relation changes to the assessment of the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40262/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Creed: ...often the children of critical skills visa holders working in the healthcare sector, given that these children, who have completed their Leaving Certificate, are now excluded from grant aid under SUSI, are unable to avail of certain QQI level 5 courses given the 150 hours' work experience requirement of same which they are unable to complete due to their visa restrictions; the proposals,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 Jul 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Patricia Ryan: 866. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, with regard to income thresholds for SUSI eligibility, he will examine the refusal of a SUSI grant to a student (details supplied); if he will investigate whether an exception can be made and expedited given, the deadline for response/appeal to SUSI. [35166/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (12 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: ..., approved course, previous academic attainment and means. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for the centralised student grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) to determine. The means test arrangements of the student grant scheme are applied nationally. In the case of both employed and self-employed applicants,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (11 Jul 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Ring: 863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the rationale for the three-year break in studies required for a person to apply for a SUSI grant as an independent mature student for postgraduate studies; if there are any plans to change or reduce the three-year break in studies requirement rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33555/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (11 Jul 2023)

Simon Harris: .... Where a student acquires Irish citizenship by naturalisation, or is granted a category of permission to remain provided for in the legislation during the course of their studies, they may apply to SUSI to have their application reassessed but they will only become eligible from the date of meeting the nationality eligibility criteria. I think it is important that our approach to...